Je veux qu'on me voit en ma façon simple, naturelle, et ord… - Michel de Montaigne

" "
Je veux qu'on me voit en ma façon simple, naturelle, et ordinaire, sans étude et artifice; car c'est moi que je peins...Je suis moi-même la matière de mon livre.

Michel de Montaigne

Sources available for members. Sign up free to see where this quote comes from

French

Collect this quote

About Michel de Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne (Michel Eyquem, lord of the manor of Montaigne, Dordogne) (28 February 1533 – 13 September 1592) was an influential French Renaissance writer, generally considered to be the inventor of the personal essay.

Biography information from Wikiquote

Also Known As

Alternative Names: Michel Eyquem de Montaigne • Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha • Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha

All quotes from Michel de Montaigne Similar Quotes by other Originators

Originators like Michel de Montaigne:

Voltaire Friedrich Nietzsche Johann Wolfgang von Goethe William Hazlitt Ralph Waldo Emerson

Additional quotes by Michel de Montaigne

Sorry the man, to my mind, who has not in his own home a place to be all by himself, to pay his court privately to himself, to hide!

No spirited mind remains within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength; it has impulses beyond its power of achievement.

(...) que a morte me encontre plantando minhas couves, mas despreocupado com ela e ainda mais com minha horta inacabada.

Je veux qu'on me voit en ma façon simple, naturelle, et ordinaire, sans étude et artifice; car c'est moi que je peins...Je suis moi-même la matière d… - Michel de Montaigne

About Michel de Montaigne

Also Known As

Go Premium

Additional quotes by Michel de Montaigne

Limited Time Offer