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“Most pleasures embrace us but to strangle.”

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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

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“Pleasure itself is painful at the bottom.”

Pleasure Bottom Painful

Book:An Abstract of the most Curious and Excellent Thoughts in Seigneur de Montaigne's Essays ... Done into English from the French original.Jpp. 227

Source: An Abstract of the most Curious and Excellent Thoughts in Seigneur de Montaigne's Essays ... Done into English from the French original.Jpp. 227

“The good opinion of the vulgar is injurious.”

Opinion Popularity Vulgar

Book:Selected essays

Source: Selected essays

“The vulgar and common esteem is seldom happy in hitting right; and I am much mistaken if, amongst the writings of my time, the worst are not those which have most gained the popular applause.”

Ifs Writing Common Worst Esteem My Time Hitting Popularity Mistaken Vulgar Applause

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

“As soon as women become ours we are no longer theirs.”

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“Whatever is preached to us, and whatever we learn, we should still remember that it is man that gives, and man that receives; it is a mortal hand that presents it to us, it is a mortal hand that accepts it.”

Men Giving Should Stills Hands Remember Accepting Mortals Preaching

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)

“Ambition is, of all other, the most contrary humor to solitude; and glory and repose are so inconsistent that they cannot possibly inhabit one and the same place; and for so much as I understand, those have only their arms and legs disengaged from the crowd, their mind and intention remain engaged behind more than ever.”

Mind Behinds Arms Solitude Ambition Glory Intention Crowds Legs Contrary Engaged Repose Inconsistent Arms And Legs

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“Ambition sufficiently plagues her proselytes, by keeping themselves always in show, like the statue of a public place.”

Shows Ambition Plague Statues

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“If love and ambition should be in equal balance, and come to jostle with equal force, I make no doubt but that the last would win the prize.”

Ifs Should Lasts Winning Force Doubt Balance Equal Ambition No Doubt Prize

Book:The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy

Source: The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy

“If not for that of conscience, yet at least for ambition's sake, let us reject ambition, let us disdain that thirst of honor and renown, so low and mendicant; that it makes us beg it of all sorts of people.”

People Ifs Honor Ambition Lows Conscience Sake Rejects Thirst Disdain Renown

Book:Michel de Montaigne: Selected Essays

Source: Michel de Montaigne: Selected Essays

“Beauty is the true prerogative of women, and so peculiarly their own, that our sex, though naturally requiring another sort of feature, is never in its lustre but when puerile and beardless, confused and mixed with theirs.”

Sex Beauty Features Confused Prerogative

Book:Works: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy; with Notes, Notices, Etc

Source: Works: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy; with Notes, Notices, Etc