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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19.12.10

Il se faut réserver une arrière-boutique toute nôtre toute franche, en laquelle nous établissons notre vraie liberté & principale retraite & solitude.

We should all have within us an utterly-unhypocritical back-room as a private refuge in which we can exist in total freedom.

1 comment:

  1. Wofl19 December 2010 at 02:38

    I think these qualities should pertain to the front-of-shop, and the shop-window, as well. Montaigne seems here to be approving of hypocrisy as 'oil in the mechanism of society'.

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