Quote

We owe subjection and obedience to all our kings, whether good or bad, alike, for that has respect unto their office but as to esteem and affection, these are only due to their virtue.

Michel de Montaigne

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
Autobiographer
Essayist
French Moralist
Jurist
Philosopher
Poet Lawyer
Politician
Translator
Writer
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
Good
Obedience
Esteem
Affection
Kings
Subjection
Office
Rulers
Respect
Alike
Virtue
Unto
Whether
Dues

More quotes by Michel de Montaigne

Image
One may be humble out of pride.
Michel de Montaigne
Image
Is it not enough to make me come back to life out of spite, to have someone who spat in my face while I existed come and rub my feet when I am beginning to exist no longer?
Michel de Montaigne
Image
All we do is to look after the opinions and learning of others: we ought to make them our own.
Michel de Montaigne
Image
This idea is more surely understood by interrogation WHAT DO I KNOW? which I bear as my motto with the emblem of a pair of scales.
Michel de Montaigne
Image
Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.
Michel de Montaigne
Image
To die is not to play a part in society it is the act of a single person. Let us live and laugh among our friends let us die and sulk among strangers.
Michel de Montaigne
Image
Now, of all the benefits that virtue confers upon us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.
Michel de Montaigne
Image
The curiosity of knowing things has been given to man for a scourge.
Michel de Montaigne
Image
Off I go, rummaging about in books for sayings which please me.
Michel de Montaigne
Image
He who does not live in some degree for others, hardly lives for himself.
Michel de Montaigne
Image
In my opinion, the most fruitful and natural play of the mind is conversation. I find it sweeter than any other action in life and if I were forced to choose, I think I would rather lose my sight than my hearing and voice. The study of books is a drowsy and feeble exercise which does not warm you up.
Michel de Montaigne
Image
I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.
Michel de Montaigne
Image
All the world knows me in my book, and my book in me.
Michel de Montaigne
Image
The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice, cruelty, according to their power.
Michel de Montaigne
Image
Love to his soul gave eyes he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life the world around him is the dream.
Michel de Montaigne
Image
Long life, and short, are by death made all one for there is no long, nor short, to things that are no more.
Michel de Montaigne
Image
Virtue cannot be followed but for herself, and if one sometimes borrows her mask to some other purpose, she presently pulls it away again.
Michel de Montaigne
Image
I love a friendship that flatters itself in the sharpness and vigor of its communications.
Michel de Montaigne
Image
Teach him a certain refinement in sorting out and selecting his arguments, with an affection for relevance and so for brevity. Above all let him be taught to throw down his arms and surrender to truth as soon as he perceives it, whether the truth is born at his rival's doing or within himself from some change in his ideas.
Michel de Montaigne
Image
We judge a horse not only by its pace on a racecourse, but also by its walk, nay, when resting in its stable.
Michel de Montaigne