Мишель де Монтень: Цитаты на английском языке (страница 12)

Мишель де Монтень было французский писатель и философ. Цитаты на английском языке.
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“There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.”

Book I, Ch. 39
Attributed
Вариант: There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.

“I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that ties them together.”

Michel De Montaigne книга Essays

Book III, Ch. 12. Of Physiognomy
Essais (1595), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Is it not a noble farce, wherein kings, republics, and emperors have for so many ages played their parts, and to which the whole vast universe serves for a theatre?”

Michel De Montaigne книга Essays

Book II, Ch. 36. Of the most Excellent Men
Essais (1595), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“It is the part of cowardice, not of courage, to go and crouch in a hole under a massive tomb, to avoid the blows of fortune.”

Michel De Montaigne книга Essays

Book II, Ch. 3. A Usage of the Island of Cea http://books.google.com/books?id=eQt-AAAAIAAJ&q="It+is+the+part+of+cowardice+not+of+courage+to+go+and+crouch+in+a+hole+under+a+massive+tomb+to+avoid+the+blows+of+fortune"
Essais (1595), Book II

“It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.”

Variants: It should be noted that the games of children are not games, and must be considered as their most serious actions.
For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
Book I, Ch. 23
Attributed

“All passions that suffer themselves to be relished and digested are but moderate.”

Michel De Montaigne книга Essays

Book I, Ch. 2. Of Sorrow
Essais (1595), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are formed and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing, as bears leisurely lick their cubs into form.”

Michel De Montaigne книга Essays

Book II, Ch. 12. Apology for Raimond Sebond
Essais (1595), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Whatever can be done another day can be done today.”

Michel De Montaigne книга Essays

Book I, Ch. 20
Essais (1595), Book I

“There is no wish more natural than the wish to know.”

Michel De Montaigne книга Essays

Book III, Ch. 13
Essais (1595), Book III