This is the list of Michel de Montaigne’s quotes used throughout the texts in this blog. They are shared here for your reference and inspiration. Michel de Montaigne was a sixteenth-century philosopher from France. In his works, you can find a lot of references to the Stoics, mainly Seneca. His view on philosophy is quite unique as he uses himself as the object of his examinations.
“To philosophize is to learn how to die.”
Michel de Montaigne, The Essays, Book 1, Chapter 20
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“We do not know where death awaits us; so let us wait for it everywhere.”
Michel de Montaigne, The Essays, Book 1, Chapter 20
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“For those who want to learn, the obstacle can often be the authority of those who teach.”
Cicero, De natura Deorum, I, v, 10, quoted by Michel de Montaigne, The Essays, Book 1, Chapter 26
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“I would rather be an expert on me than on Cicero.”
Michel de Montaigne, The Essays, Book 3, Chapter 13
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“And on the highest throne in the world, we are seated, still, upon our arses.”
Michel de Montaigne, The Essays, Book 3, Chapter 13
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“Had my intention been to seek the world’s favour, I should surely have adorned myself with borrowed beauties: I desire therein to be viewed as I appear in mine own genuine, simple, and ordinary manner, without study and artifice: for it is myself I paint. My defects are therein to be read to the life, and any imperfections and my natural form, so far as public reverence hath permitted me. … Thus, reader, myself am the matter of my book: there’s no reason thou shouldst employ thy leisure about so frivolous and vain a subject.”
Michel de Montaigne, The Essays, Letter XVI, To the Governor of Guienne
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“We do not know where death awaits us: so let us wait for it everywhere. To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave. Knowing how to die gives us freedom from subjection and constraint. Life has no evil for him who has thoroughly understood that loss of life is not an evil.”
Michel de Montaigne, The Essays, Book 1, Chapter 20
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