What did Michel de Montaigne mean by: I see this evident, that we willingly accord to piety only the services that flatter our passions. - Michel de Montaigne Philosopher · France Copy
+ Cowardice is the mother of cruelty. Feraz Zeid, July 16, 2023December 12, 2023, Michel de Montaigne, Cowardice, Cruelty, Mother, 0 - Michel de Montaigne Philosopher · France
+ He that I am reading seems always to have the most force. Feraz Zeid, September 12, 2023December 24, 2023, Michel de Montaigne, Force, Reading, 0 - Michel de Montaigne Philosopher · France
+ Sometimes it is a good choice not to choose at all. Feraz Zeid, June 8, 2023December 12, 2023, Michel de Montaigne, Choices, 0 - Michel de Montaigne Philosopher · France
+ A foreign war is a lot milder than a civil war. Feraz Zeid, September 18, 2023December 24, 2023, Michel de Montaigne, Civil War, War, 0 - Michel de Montaigne Philosopher · France
+ My trade and art is to live. Feraz Zeid, July 14, 2023December 12, 2023, Michel de Montaigne, Art, Trade, 0 - Michel de Montaigne Philosopher · France
+ I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Michel de Montaigne, Metaphysics, Physics, Study, 0 - Michel de Montaigne Philosopher · France
+ He who falls obstinate in his courage, if he falls he fights from his knees. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Michel de Montaigne, Fight, Knees, 0 - Michel de Montaigne Philosopher · France
+ How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime! Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Michel de Montaigne, Crime, Criminals, 0 - Michel de Montaigne Philosopher · France
Love, slow and gradual in its growth, is too much like friendship ever to be a violent passion. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost. - Jean de La Fontaine Poet · France
Only when a book is written out of passion is there much hope of its being read with passion. - Jean Fritz
The art of poetry is to touch the passions, and its duty to lead them on the side of virtue. - William Cowper Poet · England
Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless. - Honoré de Balzac Writer · France
Me, rule? Me, place the State under my law, when my feeble reason no longer rules even myself! - Jean Racine Playwright · France
