Essays Montaigne Quotes

#1. Being poor in Africa is something people in America can't relate to. Part of the challenge is bringing that reality to people and moving them. You have to arouse compassion.

Madonna Ciccone

#2. I have not seen anywhere in the world a more obvious malformed person and miracle than myself. Through use and time we become conditioned to anything strange; but the more I become familiar with and know myself, the more my deformity amazes me and the less I understand myself.

Michel De Montaigne

#3. Stay out of people's business and don't tell people your business." Dominique preferred getting

Ameerah Cooper

#4. If my mind could gain a firm footing, I would not make essays, I would make decisions; but it is always in apprenticeship and on trial.

Michel De Montaigne

#5. The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make to them; a man may live long, yet get little from life. Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will - Montaigne, Essays

Michel De Montaigne

#6. I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#7. If I had even the slightest grasp upon my own faculties, I would not make essays, I would make decisions.

Michel De Montaigne

#8. Letting go of the need for perfection releases a burst of energy - and guess what - you may accidentally do a good job.

Anna Olson

#9. To contest an author's right to create a poetic or realistic work is to want to force him to change his temperament, challenge his originality, refuse to allow him to use the eye and the intelligence nature has given him.

Guy De Maupassant

#10. [He who can describe how his heart is ablaze is burning on a small pyre] ~ Petrarch, Sonnet 137
(from Montaigne, On sadness)

Francesco Petrarca

#11. I tried gambling and it never paid off, women make you suffer, and greed has no end ...

Rawi Hage

#12. Only the mistakes were mine.

Malcolm X

#13. I'm sorry that the family I was g i v e n has created so much chaos in the family I've c h o s e n.

J-Ax

#14. Several renowned scientists have been predicting for some time that the world could enter a period of cooling right around now, with consequences that could be dire.

Lawrence Solomon