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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10.11.10

Versez leur du bon vin, ils vous feront de bonnes lois.

Pour them out some good wine - then they'll make good laws.

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Wofl10 November 2010 at 01:55
If only that were all it took!
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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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