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“To divert myself from a troublesome fancy, it is but to run to my books; they presently fix me to them, and drive the other out of my thoughts, and do not mutiny to see that I have only recourse to them for want of other more, real, natural, and lively conveniences; they always receive me with the same kindness.”

Book:Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising his essays, journey into Italy, and letters

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Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising his essays, journey into Italy, and letters

The book is a compilation of Michael de Montaigne's seminal works, featuring his philosophical essays, personal reflections on his journey to Italy, and his extensive correspondence. Montaigne's essays are renowned for their introspection and exploration of human nature, while his journey into Italy offers insights into the Renaissance culture and society. The letters provide a glimpse into Montaigne's personal life and thoughts. more

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Michel de Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne was a French Renaissance philosopher, essayist, and writer. He is considered one of the most significant figures in the history of the essay. Montaigne's work, particularly his book 'Essays', has been influential in the development of modern prose. more

“Business in a certain sort of men is a mark of understanding, and they are honored for it. Their souls seek repose in agitation, as children do by being rocked in a cradle. They may pronounce themselves as serviceable to their friends as troublesome to themselves. No one distributes his money to others, but every one therein distributes his time and his life. There is nothing of which we are so prodigal as of those two things, of which to be thrifty would be both commendable and useful.”

Men May Children Two Soul Would Be Certain Understanding Business Mark Two Things Honored Cradle Repose Troublesome Agitation Prodigals Commendable Thrifty

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“The curiosity of knowing things has been given to man for a scourge.”

Men Has Beens Given Knowing Curiosity Scourge Knowing Things

Book:All the Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne

Source: All the Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne

“The premeditation of death is the premeditation of liberty; he who has learnt to die has forgot to serve.”

Death Dies Liberty Premeditation

Book:Montaigne's Essays in Three Books: With Notes and Quotations. And an Account of the Author's Life. With a Short Character of the Author and Translator

Source: Montaigne's Essays in Three Books: With Notes and Quotations. And an Account of the Author's Life. With a Short Character of the Author and Translator

“There is nothing of evil in life for him who rightly comprehends that death is no evil; to know how to die delivers us from all subjection and constraint.”

Knows Death Dies Evil Know How Constraints Subjection

Book:Annotated Essays of Michel de Montaigne with English Grammar Exercises: by Michel de Montaigne (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)

Source: Annotated Essays of Michel de Montaigne with English Grammar Exercises: by Michel de Montaigne (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)

“We hold death, poverty, and grief for our principal enemies; but this death, which some repute the most dreadful of all dreadful things, who does not know that others call it the only secure harbor from the storm and tempests of life, the sovereign good of nature, the sole support of liberty, and the common and sudden remedy of all evils?”

Knows Doe Death Evil Common Grief Liberty Enemy Poverty Support Storm Secure Sole Remedy Principal Sovereign Harbors Tempest

Book:Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne: In Three Books with Marginal Notes and Quotations. And an Account of the Author's Life. With a Short Character of the Author and Translator,

Source: Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne: In Three Books with Marginal Notes and Quotations. And an Account of the Author's Life. With a Short Character of the Author and Translator,

“We are neither obstinately nor wilfully to oppose evils, nor truckle under them for want of courage, but that we are naturally to give way to them, according to their condition and our own, we ought to grant free passage to diseases; and I find they stay less with me who let them alone. And I have lost those which are reputed the most tenacious and obstinate of their own defervescence, without any help or art, and contrary to their rules. Let us a little permit nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we.”