Michel de Montaigne on Power
Browse 2 quotations attributed to Michel de Montaigne, catalogued under power, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Michel de Montaigne, entry #60905: "Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest."
Attributed to Michel de Montaigne, entry #37938: "In this present that God has made us, there is nothing unworthy our care; we stand accountable for it even to a hair; and is it not a commission to man, to conduct man according t…"
2 Quotes by Michel de Montaigne on Power
"Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest."
"In this present that God has made us, there is nothing unworthy our care; we stand accountable for it even to a hair; and is it not a commission to man, to conduct man according to his condition; 'tis express, plain, and the very principal one, and the Creator has seriously and strictly prescribed it to us. Authority has power only to work in regard to matters of common judgment, and is of more weight in a foreign language; therefore let us again charge at it in this place"