Quotes · Skopia

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Interview · Magazine

Mankind has probably done more damage to the earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.

Jacques Cousteau

1999

★ 1.1

Historical literature · Philosophical literature

The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body.

Michel Foucault

Discipline and Punish · 1975

★ 1.2

I quote others only in order the better to express myself.

Michel de Montaigne

Essays · 1575

★ 1.3

Saying is one thing and doing is another.

Michel de Montaigne

Essays · 1580

★ 1.3

Novel · Epistolary novel

Men should be bewailed at their birth and not at their death.

Persian Letters · 1721

★ 1.3

Life is short. Work is for those who will never be able to understand life. Idleness cannot degrade a man. To the discriminating eye it differs from laziness.

1921

★ 1.8

The worth and value of a man is in his heart and his will; there lies his real honour. Valour is the strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul.

Michel de Montaigne

Essays · 1580

★ 1.9

A man should keep for himself a little back shop, all his own, quite unadulterated, in which he establishes his true freedom and chief place of seclusion and solitude.

Michel de Montaigne

Essays · 1580

★ 1.9

In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

1755

★ 1.9

One of the meanings of human existence, the source of human freedom, is never to accept anything as definitive, untouchable, obvious, or immobile.

Michel Foucault

1980

★ 1.9

Those who have likened our life to a dream were more right, by chance, than they realized. We are awake while sleeping, and waking sleep.

Michel de Montaigne

Essays · 1580

★ 2.0

The diversity of human events offers us infinite examples in all sorts of forms.

Michel de Montaigne

Essays · 1580

★ 2.0

The value of life lies not in the length of days but in the use you make of them.

Michel de Montaigne

Essays · 1580

★ 2.0

One should always have one's boots on, and be ready to leave.

Michel de Montaigne

Essays · 1580

★ 2.1

Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.

Michel de Montaigne

Essays · 1580

★ 2.1

Living is my job and my art.

Michel de Montaigne

Essays · 1580

★ 2.1

Novel · Epistolary novel

If triangles were to make to themselves gods, they would give them three sides.

Persian Letters · 1721

★ 2.1

It is more of a job to interpret the interpretations than to interpret the things, and there are more books about books than about any other subject: we do nothing but write glosses about each other.

Michel de Montaigne

Essays · 1580

★ 2.8

Whenever your life ends, it is all there. The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some men have lived long, and lived little; attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough.

Michel de Montaigne

Essays · 1580

★ 2.8

Treatise · Political literature

Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permits.

The Spirit of the Laws · 1748

★ 2.9

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