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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6.10.10

La presomption est nostre maladie naturelle et originelle. La plus calamiteuse et fraile de toutes les créatures, c'est l'homme, et quant et quant

la plus orgueilleuse.

Our natural and original sickness is presumptiousness. Man is the most afflicted and frail of all creatures - and the most vainglorious.

1 comment:

  1. Wofl6 October 2010 at 02:02

    Montaigne's heretical, Gascon take on Original Sin - as presumptuousness, arrogance and amour-propre.

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