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  1. A quotation from Montaigne

    He who does not give himself leisure to be thirsty cannot take pleasure in drinking.
     
    [Qui ne se donne loisir d’avoir soif, ne sçauroit prendre plaisir à boire.]

    Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592) French essayist
    Essays, Book 1, ch. 42 (1.42), “Of the Inequality among Us [De l’inequalité qui est entre nous]” (1572) [tr. Frame (1943)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…

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  2. A quotation from Montaigne

    He who does not give himself leisure to be thirsty cannot take pleasure in drinking.
     
    [Qui ne se donne loisir d’avoir soif, ne sçauroit prendre plaisir à boire.]

    Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592) French essayist
    Essays, Book 1, ch. 42 (1.42), “Of the Inequality among Us [De l’inequalité qui est entre nous]” (1572) [tr. Frame (1943)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montaigne #micheldemontaigne #desire #drinking #enjoyment #glut #lack #pleasure #satiety #satisfaction #surfeit #want

  3. A quotation from Montaigne

    He who does not give himself leisure to be thirsty cannot take pleasure in drinking.
     
    [Qui ne se donne loisir d’avoir soif, ne sçauroit prendre plaisir à boire.]

    Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592) French essayist
    Essays, Book 1, ch. 42 (1.42), “Of the Inequality among Us [De l’inequalité qui est entre nous]” (1572) [tr. Frame (1943)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montaigne #micheldemontaigne #desire #drinking #enjoyment #glut #lack #pleasure #satiety #satisfaction #surfeit #want

  4. A quotation from Montaigne

    He who does not give himself leisure to be thirsty cannot take pleasure in drinking.
     
    [Qui ne se donne loisir d’avoir soif, ne sçauroit prendre plaisir à boire.]

    Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592) French essayist
    Essays, Book 1, ch. 42 (1.42), “Of the Inequality among Us [De l’inequalité qui est entre nous]” (1572) [tr. Frame (1943)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montaigne #micheldemontaigne #desire #drinking #enjoyment #glut #lack #pleasure #satiety #satisfaction #surfeit #want

  5. A quotation from Montaigne

    He who does not give himself leisure to be thirsty cannot take pleasure in drinking.
     
    [Qui ne se donne loisir d’avoir soif, ne sçauroit prendre plaisir à boire.]

    Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592) French essayist
    Essays, Book 1, ch. 42 (1.42), “Of the Inequality among Us [De l’inequalité qui est entre nous]” (1572) [tr. Frame (1943)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montaigne #micheldemontaigne #desire #drinking #enjoyment #glut #lack #pleasure #satiety #satisfaction #surfeit #want

  6. Ein halbes Jahrhundert also. War gar nicht so klar, dass ich das erleben würde. Habe ja an dieser Stelle immer wieder drüber geschrieben. Was gibt es also zu sagen? Alles und Nichts. Mir ist nicht nach Resume ziehen und doch denke ich diese Tage viel über das Leben nach, schließlich drehe ich mich jetzt schon eine Weile auf diesem Erdklumpen im Raum. Verrückter Gedanke. Wir sind so in […]

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  7. A quotation from Montaigne

    Things are neither so grievous nor so difficult in themselves, but our weakness and cowardice make them so.
     
    [Les choses ne sont pas si douloureuses, ny difficiles d’elles mesmes: mais nostre foiblesse & lascheté les fait telles.]

    Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
    Essays, Book 1, ch. 14 (1.14), “The Taste of Good and Bad Things Depends Mostly on the Opinion We Have of Them [Que le goust des biens et des maux despend en bonne partie de l’opinion que nous en avons]” (1572) [tr. Ives (1925)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montaigne #micheldemontaigne #cowardice #difficulty #fear #pain #perspective #relativity #subjectivity #weakness #nerves #selfcontempt #selfdoubt #selfsabotage #

  8. A quotation from Montaigne

    A man must not always tell all, for that were folly: but what a man says should be what he thinks, otherwise ’tis knavery.
     
    [Il ne faut pas tousjours dire tout, car ce seroit sottise : Mais ce qu’on dit, il faut qu’il soit tel qu’on le pense : autrement, c’est meschanceté.]

    Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
    Essays, Book 2, ch. 17 (2.17), “Of Presumption [De la Presomption]” (1578) [tr. Cotton/Hazlitt (1877)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montaigne #micheldemontaigne #deceit #dishonesty #folly #foolishness #forthrightness #honesty #integrity #lying #oversharing #sinofcommission #sinofomission #spill #frankness #truthfulness #sincerity #forthrightness #bluntness

  9. A quotation from Montaigne

    Lying is a villainous vice, and an ancient writer depicts it as most shameful when he says that to lie is to manifest contempt of God together with fear of man. It is not possible to represent more fully the horror, the vileness, the outrageousness of it. For what can be conceived more villainous than to be cowardly with respect to men, and audacious with respect to God?
     
    [C’est un vilain vice, que le mentir ; & qu’un ancien peint bien honteusement, quand il dit, que c’est donner tesmoignage de mespriser Dieu, & quand & quand de craindre les hommes. Il n’est pas possible d’en representer plus richement l’horreur, la vilité & le desreiglement: Car que peut on imaginer plus vilain, que d’estre couart à l’endroit des hommes, & brave à l’endroit de Dieu?]

    Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
    Essays, Book 2, ch. 18 (2.18), “Of Giving the Lie [Du Démentir]” (1578–79) [tr. Ives (1925)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montaigne #micheldemontaigne #baseness #contempt #cowardice #defiance #dishonesty #falsehood #fear #lying #truth #untruth #vice

  10. A quotation from Montaigne

    Man is certainly mad. He cannot fashion a worm, and he fashions gods by dozens.
     
    [L’homme est bien insensé: Il ne sçauroit forger un ciron, & forge des Dieux à douzaines.]

    Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
    Essays, Book 2, ch. 12 (2.12), “Apology for Raymond Sebond [Apologie de Raimond de Sebonde]” (1573) [tr. Zeitlin (1934)]

    More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montaigne #micheldemontaigne #creation #divinepower #ego #gods #hubris #humannature #life #mythmaking #power #religion