Citations de Michel de Montaigne

Michel Eyquem, Seigneur de Montaigne, 1533-1592

Quotations from Montaigne's Essays
selected and translated by Anthony Weir
with glosses and comments.

Michel de Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne
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27.9.10

J'aime mieux forger mon âme que la meubler.

I'd rather re-shape my soul than furnish it.

1 comment:

  1. Wofl27 September 2010 at 03:03

    In other words - sensibility is better than mere experience, understanding much better than information, to be kind is better than to drain others, to contain beauty is greatly preferable to collecting beautiful things.

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