On Solitude Quotes

“From books all I seek is to give myself pleasure by an honourable pastime: or if I do study, I seek only that branch of learning which deals with knowing myself and which teaches me how to live and die well...”
― Michel de Montaigne, On Solitude

“آدمی از هیجانات سوزان، ناگزیر به تب های سوزان می جهد”
― Michel de Montaigne, On Solitude

“Whether we are running our home or studying or hunting or following any other sport, we should go to the very boundaries of pleasure but take good care not to be involved beyond the point where it begins to be mingled with pain.”
― Michel de Montaigne, On Solitude

“We take our fetters with us; our freedom is not total: we still turn our gaze towards the things we have left behind; our imagination is full of them.”
― Michel de Montaigne, On Solitude

“A man with nothing to lend should refrain from borrowing.”
― Michel de Montaigne, On Solitude

“There is hardly less torment in running a family than in running a country.”
― Michel de Montaigne, On Solitude

“You should no longer be concerned with what the world says of you but with what you say to yourself … [let your mind dwell on examples of honour].”
― Michel de Montaigne, On Solitude

“If you do not first lighten yourself and your soul of the weight of your burdens, moving about will only increase their pressure on you, as a ship’s cargo is less troublesome when lashed in place… It is our own self we have to isolate and take back into possession.

We take our fetters with us; our freedom is not total: we still turn our gaze towards the things we have left behind; our imagination is full of them.

There is nothing more unsociable than Man, and nothing more sociable: unsociable by his vice, sociable by his nature

in lonely places, be a crowd unto yourself

Now the aim of all solitude, I take it, is the same: to live more at leisure and at one's ease. But people do not always look for the right way

Pain compels even the innocent to lie.

You should no longer be concerned with what the world says of you but with what you say to yourself … [let your mind dwell on examples of honour].”
― Michel de Montaigne, On Solitude

“In his own time Simon Thomas was a great doctor. I remember that I happened to meet him one day at the home of a rich old consumptive; he told his patient when discussing ways to cure him that one means was to provide occasions for me to enjoy his company: he could then fix his eyes on the freshness of my countenance and his thoughts on the overflowing cheerfulness and vigour of my young manhood; by filling all his senses with the flower of my youth his condition might improve. He forgot to add that mine might get worse.”
― Michel de Montaigne, On Solitude

“If you do not first lighten yourself and your soul of the weight of your burdens, moving about will only increase their pressure on you, as a ship’s cargo is less troublesome when lashed in place… It is our own self we have to isolate and take back into possession.”
― Michel de Montaigne, On Solitude

“Pain compels even the innocent to lie.”
― Michel de Montaigne, On Solitude