“Saturninus said, "Comrades, you have lost a good captain to make him an ill general."”
Michel De Montaigne книга Essays
Book III, Ch. 9. Of Vanity
Essais (1595), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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“Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.”
Book III, Ch. 13
Attributed
Вариант: Of all the infirmities we have, 'tis the most savage to despise our being. (Charles Cotton translation)
Michel De Montaigne книга Essays
Book III, Ch. 13. Of Experience
Essais (1595), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“When I play with my cat, who knows if I am not a pastime to her more than she is to me?”
Michel De Montaigne книга Essays
Quand je me joue à ma chatte, qui sait si elle passe son temps de moi, plus que je ne fais d'elle. <br class="br">Book II, Ch. 12 <br class="br">The 1595 edition adds: “We entertain each other with reciprocal monkey tricks. If I have my time to begin or to refuse, so has she hers.” As quoted in Jacques Derrida, The Animal That Therefore I Am https://books.google.it/books?id=y8Drc-QghEIC&pg=PT21, trans. David Wills, Fordham University Press, 2008. <br class="br">Essais (1595), Book II
“He who does not give himself leisure to be thirsty cannot take pleasure in drinking.”
Michel De Montaigne книга Essays
Book I, Ch. 42
Essais (1595), Book I
“Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.”
Book I, Ch. 7
Attributed
“Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.”
Michel De Montaigne книга Essays
Book II, Ch. 37. Of the Resemblance of Children to their Brothers
Essais (1595), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.”
Book I, Ch. 39
Attributed
“For a desperate disease a desperate cure.”
Michel De Montaigne книга Essays
Book II, Ch. 3. The Custom of the Isle of Cea
Essais (1595), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Michel De Montaigne книга Essays
Book III, Ch. 13. Of Experience
Essais (1595), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“I want death to find me planting my cabbages.”
Michel De Montaigne книга Essays
Je veux que la mort me trouve plantant mes choux.
Book I, Ch. 20
Essais (1595), Book I
“I find that the best goodness I have has some tincture of vice.”
Michel De Montaigne книга Essays
Book II, Ch. 20
Essais (1595), Book II
Вариант: I find that the best goodness I have has some tincture of vice.
“Physicians have this advantage: the sun lights their success and the earth covers their failures.”
Michel De Montaigne книга Essays
Book II, Ch. 37
Essais (1595), Book II
“Not because Socrates said so,… I look upon all men as my compatriots.”
Michel De Montaigne книга Essays
Book III, Ch. 9. Of Vanity
Essais (1595), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)