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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14.11.10

Montaigne's ceiling • Le plafond de Montaigne

This inscription is from Pliny's Naturalis Historia, II, 7
















Solum certum nihil esse certi et homine nihil miserius aut superbius.

Il n'y a rien de certain que l'incertitude, et aucune créature plus minable et plus orgueilleux que l'homme.

The only certainty is that nothing is certain, and there is no creature more pathetic and more vain than man.

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