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Michel de Montaigne Quotes
«Even those who argue against fame still want the books they write against it to bear their name in the title and hope to become famous for despising it.»
«The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.»
«Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.»
«Vice leaves, like an ulcer in the flesh, a repentance in the soul which is always scratching itself until it bleeds»
Author: Michel de Montaigne
(Philosopher, Writer)
| Keywords:
in the flesh, repentance, ulcer, ulcers
«Necessity reconciles and brings men together; and this accidental connection afterwards forms itself into laws»
«I want death to find me planting my cabbages, but caring little for it, and even less for my imperfect garden»
Author: Michel de Montaigne
(Philosopher, Writer)
| About:
Death and dying
| Keywords:
cabbages, caring, planting