Montaigne Cards

Description: What do I know?

Description: Michel de Montaigne quote: L'homme est bien insensé : il ne saurait forger un ciron et forge des dieux à la douzaine.

Description: Michel de Montaigne quote: It is not without good reason said, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.

Description: Michel de Montaigne quote: Je veux qu'on me voit en ma façon simple, naturelle, et ordinaire, sans étude et artifice; car c'est moi que je peins...Je suis moi-même la matière de mon livre.

Description: Michel de Montaigne quote: I want to be seen here in my simple, natural, ordinary fashion, without straining or artifice; for it is myself that I portray...I am myself the matter of my book.

Description: Michel de Montaigne quote: The thing I fear most is fear

Description: Michel de Montaigne quote: My trade and my art is living.

Description: Michel de Montaigne quote: The plague of man is boasting of his knowledge.

Description: Michel de Montaigne quote: A man of understanding has lost nothing, if he has himself.

Description: Michel de Montaigne quote: He who should teach men to die would at the same time teach them to live.

Description: Michel de Montaigne quote: C'est ce de quoi j'ai le plus de peur que la peur.

Description: Michel de Montaigne quote: I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.

Description: Michel de Montaigne quote: Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness.

Description: Michel de Montaigne quote: Mon métier et mon art, c'est vivre.

Description: Michel de Montaigne quote: Every rich man is avaricious, in my opinion.

Description: Michel de Montaigne quote: Certes, c'est un subject merveilleusement vain, divers, et ondoyant, que l'homme. Il est malaisé d'y fonder jugement constant et uniforme.

Description: Michel de Montaigne quote: Live as long as you please, you will strike nothing off the time you will have to spend dead.

Description: Michel de Montaigne quote: Ceux qui ont apparié notre vie à un songe ont eu de la raison. ... Nous veillons dormants et veillants dormons.

Description: Michel de Montaigne quote: Quand je me jouë à ma chatte, qui sçait, si elle passe son temps de moy plus que je ne fay d’elle ?

Description: Michel de Montaigne quote: When I play with my cat, who knows if I am not a pastime to her more than she is to me?

Description: Michel de Montaigne quote: L'homme d'entendement n'a rien perdu, s'il a soi-même.

Description: Montaigne quote: Je ne dis les autres, sinon pour d'autant plus me dire.

Description: Michel de Montaigne quote: I want death to find me planting my cabbages.

Description: Blaise Pascal quote: If it is pleasing to observe in nature her desire to paint God in all his works, in which we see some traces of him because they are his images, how much more just is it to consider in the productions of minds the efforts which they make to imitate the essential truth, even in shunning it, and to remark wherein they attain it and wherein they wander from it, as I have endeavored to do in this study.

Description: Michel de Montaigne quote: Je veux que la mort me trouve plantant mes choux.

Description: Michel de Montaigne quote: He who does not give himself leisure to be thirsty cannot take pleasure in drinking.

Description: Michel de Montaigne quote: The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from custom.

Description: Michel de Montaigne quote: La plus grande chose du monde, c'est de savoir être à soi.

Description: Michel de Montaigne quote: No matter that we may mount on stilts, we still must walk on our own legs. And on the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.

Description: Michel de Montaigne quote: Things are not so painful and difficult of themselves, but our weakness or cowardice makes them so.

Description: Michel de Montaigne quote: Man is certainly crazy. He could not make a mite, and he makes gods by the dozen.

Description: Michel de Montaigne, a 16th-century French philosopher and essayist, pioneered the literary form of the personal essay. Known for his introspective and skeptical approach, Montaigne's works explored human nature, cultural relativism, and the pursuit of knowledge, influencing the development of philosophical and autobiographical writing.

Description: Michel de Montaigne quote: There is as much difference between us and ourselves as between us and others.

Description: Michel de Montaigne quote: The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

Description: Michel de Montaigne quote: It is a thorny undertaking, and more so than it seems, to follow a movement so wandering as that of our mind, to penetrate the opaque depths of its innermost folds, to pick out and immobilize the innumerable flutterings that agitate it.

Description: Michel de Montaigne quote: Si, avons nous beau monter sur des échasses, car sur des échasses encore faut-il marcher de nos jambes. Et au plus élevé trône du monde, si ne sommes assis que sur notre cul.