But sure there is need of other remedies than dreaming, a weak contention of art against nature.
More Quotes from Michel Eyquem de Montaigne:
Let us give Nature a chance she knows her business better than we do.Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Our wisdom and deliberation for the most part follow the lead of chance.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
I love those historians that are either very simple or most excellent. Such as are between both (which is the most common fashion), it is they that spoil all they will needs chew our meat for us and take upon them a law to judge, and by consequence to square and incline the story according to their fantasy.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Not because Socrates said so, but because it is in truth my own disposition and perchance to some excess I look upon all men as my compatriots, and embrace a Pole as a Frenchman, making less account of the national than of the universal and common bond.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Even those who argue against fame still want the books they write against it to bear their name in the title and hope to become famous for despising it.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
It is much more easy to accuse the one sex than to excuse the other.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Art Quotes, Dreaming Quotes, Nature QuotesAttitude determines the altitude of life.
Edwin Louis Cole
The proper route to an understanding of the world is an examination of our errors about it.
Errol Morris
If the Americans go in and overthrow Saddam Hussein and it's clean, he has nothing, I will apologize to the nation, and I will not trust the Bush administration again.
Bill OReilly