Man in sooth is a marvellous, vain, fickle, and unstable subject.
-- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592)
-- Essays, Book i, Chap. i, That Men by various Ways arrive at the same End
-- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592)
-- Essays, Book i, Chap. i, That Men by various Ways arrive at the same End
Related:
- He who should teach men to die would at the same time teach them to live.
Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book i... - The public weal requires that men should betray and lie and massacre.
Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book iii... - Not because Socrates said so,... I look upon all men as my compatriots.
Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book iii... - A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book i... - Like rowers, who advance backward.
-- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592)
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Essays, Book iii, Chap. i, Of Profit and... - There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book i... - Men are most apt to believe what they least understand.
Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book iii... - Accustom him to everything, that he may not be a Sir Paris,
a carpet-knight, -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592)... - All passions that suffer themselves to be relished and digested are
but moderate.
Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book i...
