tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57977363469120182024-03-13T09:18:33.731-07:00Les sagesses de Montaigne The wisdom of Montaigne________________________citations choisiesWoflhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10215884001340285492noreply@blogger.comBlogger129125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5797736346912018.post-65946855689517265682018-12-09T02:45:00.000-08:002018-12-09T02:45:03.363-08:00'Retain a healthy contempt for your fellow-men, and especially for those who urge you to do so.'<span style="color: #f6b26b; font-size: large;"><i>« Méfiez-vous de tout le monde et en particulier de ceux qui conseillent de vous méfier.
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8;">These words are <u>not</u> by Montaigne, but by his inspirational bosom friend and soul-mate <a href="http://hairymouthfuls.tumblr.com/image/48855713712" target="_blank">Etienne de la Boétie</a>. Some people think that la Boétie's seminal work, <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">THE </span>ANTI-DICTATOR</span>, might well have been written by Montaigne. Its revolutionary message can be summarised thus: <i> </i></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #f6b26b;"><i>The great mystery of politics is the obedience given to rulers. <br />Why do people agree to be looted, exploited, forced to bear arms, and in many other ways allow themselves to be oppressed by
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #f6b26b;"><i>Not because of fear - for our consent is required. And that
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Woflhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10215884001340285492noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5797736346912018.post-8711010258947310712018-12-08T12:10:00.005-08:002018-12-08T12:24:42.933-08:00De combien est le langage faux moins sociable que le silence. <h2>
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Silence is much less anti-social than false conversation.</span></h2>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span><span style="color: #d5a6bd;"></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"></span><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span><br />Woflhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10215884001340285492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5797736346912018.post-40346658404214890942012-06-13T03:17:00.007-07:002013-04-25T02:32:28.208-07:00C'est une absolue perfection, et comme divine, de savoir jouir loyalement de son être....<div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>To know how to enjoy being truly yourself is utter perfection - and next to divine.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>We seek other ways of being because we don't understand how to make use of our own, and we constantly look outside ourselves because we don't realise what is inside.</b></span></div>
Woflhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10215884001340285492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5797736346912018.post-67697876070221514472011-02-06T03:01:00.000-08:002011-02-11T08:06:09.797-08:00Ne cherchons pas hors de nous notre mal, il est chez nous, il est planté en nos entrailles.<div class="post-header"> </div> <span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;" ><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">Suffering and evil come not from without, but from within our very bones.</span><br /></span>Woflhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10215884001340285492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5797736346912018.post-66201367010755116312011-02-03T02:46:00.000-08:002011-02-03T02:49:34.020-08:00Ne faites donc pas comme l'avare, qui perd beaucoup pour ne vouloir rien perdre.<span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;" ><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">Better not to be miserly, miserable hoarders, who lose almost everything in order to lose nothing.<br /><br /></span></span>Woflhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10215884001340285492noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5797736346912018.post-12640232665492036142011-02-02T05:12:00.000-08:002011-02-02T05:20:09.572-08:00... la reconnaissance de l'ignorance est l'un des plus beaux et plus sûrs témoignages de jugement que je trouve.<span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;" ><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">I have found that a person's recognition of his own ignorance is one of the surest and most admirable indications of his good judgement.<br /><br /></span></span>Woflhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10215884001340285492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5797736346912018.post-86040204493613158222011-02-01T02:20:00.000-08:002011-02-01T02:32:31.742-08:00Vaut-il pas mieux demeurer en suspens que de s'infrasquer en tant d'erreurs que l'humaine fantaisie a produites?<span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:lucida grande;" >Would it not be better to live <span style="font-style: italic;">in abeyance</span> than be involved in all the mischief and misjudgements produced by human delusions ?<br /><br /></span></span>Woflhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10215884001340285492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5797736346912018.post-64318505989266442282011-01-31T02:21:00.000-08:002011-01-31T02:31:46.785-08:00Dédaignons cette faim de renommée et d'honneur, basse et belitresse, qui nous le fait coquiner de toute sorte de gens.<span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;" ><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">Spurn that hunger for honour and renown, worthless and base, which makes us puppets and pimps of all and sundry.<br /><br /></span></span>Woflhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10215884001340285492noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5797736346912018.post-27725627769179079082011-01-30T02:45:00.000-08:002011-01-30T02:50:07.499-08:00Puis que ce n'est par conscience, au moins par ambition refusons l'ambition.<span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;" ><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">If not because of conscience, at least because of ambition we should decline ambition.<br /><br /></span></span>Woflhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10215884001340285492noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5797736346912018.post-51915202643081909252011-01-29T03:33:00.000-08:002011-01-29T03:39:26.111-08:00On ne boit pas, on donne un baiser et le vin vous rend une caresse.<span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;" ><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">One doesn't <span style="font-style: italic;">drink</span> - you offer your lips and the wine returns a caress.<br /><br /></span></span>Woflhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10215884001340285492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5797736346912018.post-82650240961007265462011-01-28T02:17:00.000-08:002011-01-28T02:19:14.108-08:00Le silence et la modestie sont qualités très commodes à la conversation.<span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;" ><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">Silence and modesty are very useful qualities in conversation.<br /><br /></span></span>Woflhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10215884001340285492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5797736346912018.post-91083848903795235822011-01-27T02:09:00.000-08:002011-01-27T02:14:40.427-08:00La vaillance a ses limites, comme les autres vertus, lesquelles franchies, on se trouve dans le train du vice.<span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:lucida grande;" >Like any other virtue, courage has a boundary, beyond which it starts to go bad.<br /><br /></span></span>Woflhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10215884001340285492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5797736346912018.post-16734853101452189512011-01-26T04:01:00.000-08:002011-01-26T04:03:50.157-08:00Notre religion n'a point eu de plus assuré fondement humain que le mépris de la vie.<span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;" ><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">Our religion has had no surer foundation than contempt for life.<br /><br /></span></span>Woflhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10215884001340285492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5797736346912018.post-46513634678864547842011-01-25T04:15:00.000-08:002011-01-25T04:24:08.216-08:00Satellite photo<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qPtuvFVpbaI/TT6_G3G--XI/AAAAAAAAH2E/PuHJu3rKmoU/s1600/GoogleEarth.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 228px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qPtuvFVpbaI/TT6_G3G--XI/AAAAAAAAH2E/PuHJu3rKmoU/s320/GoogleEarth.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5566096314069875058" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">- d'après </span>Google Earth.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">La flèche rouge indique la Tour Montaigne.</span><span style="font-style: italic;"><br />The red arrow shows Montaigne's tower.<span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">.</span></span><br /></span>Woflhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10215884001340285492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5797736346912018.post-19224475125530736002011-01-23T02:37:00.000-08:002011-01-23T02:42:23.555-08:00La raison va toujours et torte, et boiteuse, et déhanchée.<span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;" ><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">Reason is forever defective, lame and lop-sided.<br /><br /></span></span>Woflhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10215884001340285492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5797736346912018.post-47227116966656689742011-01-22T02:31:00.000-08:002011-01-22T03:04:57.449-08:00La philosophie a des discours pour la naissance des hommes comme pour la décrépitude.<span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;" ><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">Philosophy can discuss birth as well as decrepitude.<br /><br /></span></span>Woflhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10215884001340285492noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5797736346912018.post-71603018523260232852011-01-21T02:12:00.000-08:002011-01-21T02:15:32.577-08:00...j'aimerais mieux, à l'aventure, être le second ou le troisième à Périgueux que le premier à Paris.<span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;" ><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">I would rather, if it were possible, be the second or third most important man in Périgueux than the most important man in Paris.<br /><br /></span></span>Woflhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10215884001340285492noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5797736346912018.post-18994947070468392462011-01-20T02:08:00.000-08:002011-01-20T02:11:45.698-08:00La reconnaissance de l'ignorance est l'un des plus beaux et plus sûrs témoignages de jugement que je trouve.<span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:lucida grande;" >Recognition of one's own ignorance is one of the finest and surest indications of good judgement.<br /><br /></span></span>Woflhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10215884001340285492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5797736346912018.post-13011794697523636812011-01-19T02:37:00.000-08:002011-01-22T03:07:22.161-08:00La vertu n'avoue rien que ce qui se fait par elle et pour elle seule.<span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;" ><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">Virtue admits only to being for its own sake.<br /><br /></span></span>Woflhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10215884001340285492noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5797736346912018.post-74758882863265064572011-01-17T06:30:00.000-08:002011-01-17T06:36:57.309-08:00Tant sage qu'il voudra, mais enfin c'est un homme: qu'est-il plus caduc, plus mésirable et plus de néant?<span style=";font-family:lucida grande;font-size:180%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">No matter how wise he be, a man is just a human : is there any </span>[creature]<span style="font-weight: bold;"> more vacuous, miserable and null ?<br /><br /></span></span>Woflhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10215884001340285492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5797736346912018.post-57454532510309403352011-01-16T01:56:00.000-08:002011-01-16T02:07:08.575-08:00Les jeux des enfants ne sont pas des jeux, et les faut juger en eux comme leurs plus sérieuses actions.<span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:lucida grande;" >Children's games are not just games, but should be recognised as their most serious activities.<br /><br /></span></span>Woflhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10215884001340285492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5797736346912018.post-73604079306452683292011-01-15T03:05:00.000-08:002011-01-15T03:10:24.726-08:00Les hommes sont comme les pommes : quand on les entasse, ils pourrissent.<span style=";font-family:lucida grande;font-size:180%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Men are like apples: when they are boxed up they rot.<br /><br /></span></span>Woflhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10215884001340285492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5797736346912018.post-2627239902902393312011-01-14T01:38:00.000-08:002011-01-25T04:28:58.171-08:00La Tour de Montaigne • Montaigne's Tower<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qPtuvFVpbaI/TTAaPrkIWRI/AAAAAAAAH1M/LfzO-lyV67I/s1600/tourMontaigne2.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qPtuvFVpbaI/TTAaPrkIWRI/AAAAAAAAH1M/LfzO-lyV67I/s320/tourMontaigne2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5561974396497189138" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-style: italic;">His library was on the top floor,<br />and held, </span></span><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-style: italic;">on shelves five high,</span></span><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-style: italic;"> over a thousand books - which he dipped into for inspiration, rather than reading for mere information which he despised. Books were, of course, extremely expensive, scarcely a hundred years after the invention of the movable-type printing-press.</span><br /><br /></span></div>Woflhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10215884001340285492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5797736346912018.post-26466934837773118412011-01-13T09:51:00.000-08:002011-01-23T03:36:13.774-08:00Savoir par cœur n'est pas savoir : c'est tenir ce qu'on a donné en garde à sa mémoire.<span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;" ><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">To know by heart is not to know at all, but to retain what has been inserted into our memories.<br /><br /></span></span>Woflhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10215884001340285492noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5797736346912018.post-49243723246852564842011-01-12T01:57:00.000-08:002011-01-12T02:04:30.033-08:00Ni les hommes, ni leurs vies ne se mesurent à l'aune.<span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:lucida grande;" >Neither people nor their lives can be expressed by statistics.<br /><br /></span></span>Woflhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10215884001340285492noreply@blogger.com1