Les sagesses de Montaigne The wisdom of Montaigne

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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

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30.11.10

Il ne faut pas demander que toutes choses suivent notre volonté, mais qu'elles suivent la prudence.

We should not want everything to be subject to our will, but to good sense.

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------------------------------Born in the same year as Elizabeth I of England (and the marriage of Henry VIII to her mother, Anne Boleyn), Montaigne died 11 years before her, and thus witnessed the start of the terrible Wars of Religion, which devastated south-west France (where he lived) and former Cathar lands which became Protestant as a matter of course.

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