Michel de Montaigne on custom
Michel de Montaigne109 quotes“The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.”
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I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
Michel de MontaigneMichel de Montaigne I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man’s estate.
Michel de MontaigneMichel de Montaigne It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
Michel de MontaigneMichel de Montaigne Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
Michel de MontaigneMichel de Montaigne The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them… Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
Michel de MontaigneMichel de Montaigne Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
Michel de MontaigneMichel de Montaigne Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
Michel de MontaigneMichel de Montaigne I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
Michel de MontaigneMichel de Montaigne Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
Michel de MontaigneMichel de Montaigne The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
Michel de MontaigneMichel de Montaigne It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
Michel de MontaigneMichel de Montaigne The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.
Michel de MontaigneMichel de Montaigne No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
Michel de MontaigneMichel de Montaigne We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
Michel de MontaigneMichel de Montaigne A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
Michel de MontaigneMichel de Montaigne If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.
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The perpetual obstacle to human advancement is custom.
John Stuart MillJohn Stuart Mill Whatever may be the laws and customs of a country, women always give the tone to morals.
Aime MartinAime Martin The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.
Agnes RepplierAgnes Repplier The Roman state stands by ancient customs, and its manhood.
Quintus EnniusQuintus Ennius How many things both just and unjust are sanctioned by custom?
TerenceTerence We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs… of our barbarous ancestors.
Guy de MaupassantGuy de Maupassant The custom is often noticed in the Old Testament, and still prevails in the east, and in some of the newly discovered South Sea Islands.
Adam ClarkeAdam Clarke Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex.
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