240 ordspråk av Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne föddes den February 28th 1533 och dog den 23 September 1592 - French writer
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 There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to. |
| There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent |
| There is, in public affairs, no state so bad, provided it has age and stability on its side, that it is not preferable to change and disturbance. |
| There is, nevertheless, a certain respect and a general duty of humanity that ties us, not only to beasts that have life and sense, but even to trees and plants. |
| There never were in the world two opinions alike, no more than two hairs or two grains; the most universal quality is diversity |
| Things don't change as much as feelings. |
| Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest |
| Those things are dearest to us that have cost us the most |
| Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... We sleeping wake, and waking sleep. |
| To begin depriving death of its greatest advantage over us, let us adopt a way clean contrary to that common one; let us deprive death of its strangeness, let us frequent it, let us get used to it; let us have nothing more often in mind than death.... |
| To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us. |
| To know how to live is my trade and my art. |
| To philosophise is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death. |
| To philosophize is to doubt |
| Traveling through the world produces a marvelous clarity in the judgment of men. We are all of us confined and enclosed within ourselves, and see no farther than the end of our nose. This great world is a mirror where we must see ourselves in order to know ourselves. There are so many different tempers, so many different points of view, judgments, opinions, laws and customs to teach us to judge wisely on our own, and to teach our judgment to recognize its imperfection and natural weakness. |
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