Michel de Montaigne on Nature
Browse 6 quotations attributed to Michel de Montaigne, catalogued under nature, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Michel de Montaigne, entry #195496: "There never was in the world two opinions alike, no more than two hairs or two grains; the most universal quality is diversity."
Attributed to Michel de Montaigne, entry #83654: "Physicians have this advantage: the sun lights their success and the earth covers their failures."
6 Quotes by Michel de Montaigne on Nature
"There never was in the world two opinions alike, no more than two hairs or two grains; the most universal quality is diversity."
"Physicians have this advantage: the sun lights their success and the earth covers their failures."
"Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem."
"Habit is a second nature."
"Why may not a goose say thus: "All the parts of the universe I have an interest in: the earth serves me to walk upon, the sun to light me; the stars have their influence upon me; I have such an advantage by the winds and such by the waters; there is nothing that yon heavenly roof looks upon so favourably as me. I am the darling of Nature! Is it not man that keeps and serves me?"
"For my own part, I may desire in general to be other than I am; I may condemn and dislike my whole form, and beg of Almighty God for an entire reformation, and that He will please to pardon my natural infirmity: but I ought not to call this repentance, methinks, no more than the being dissatisfied that I am not an angel or Cato. My actions are regular, and conformable to what I am and to my condition; I can do no better; and repentance does not properly touch things that are not in our power; sorrow does.. I imagine an infinite number of natures more elevated and regular than mine; and yet I do not for all that improve my faculties, no more than my arm or will grow more strong and vigorous for conceiving those of another to be so."