My appetite comes to me while eating. ✨ Michel de Montaigne, Bayle St.…

Michel de Montaigne
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My appetite comes to me while eating. ✨ Michel de Montaigne, Bayle St. John (1866). Essays [tr. by Cotton, p.282
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself. ✨ Michel de Montaigne, George Savile Marquis of Halifax (1743). Montaigne's Essays in Three Books: With Notes and Quotations. … ▶
It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength. ✨ Michel de Montaigne (197 … ▶
There never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains; the most universal quality is diversity. ✨ Michel de Montaigne (2015). Essays of Montaigne, p.922, Xist Publ … ▶
So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination... And … ▶
It is a dangerous and fateful presumption, besides the absurd temerity that it implies, to disdain what we do not comprehend. For after you have established, according to your fine undertstanding, th … ▶

My appetite comes to me while eating. ✨ Michel de Montaigne, Bayle St. John (1866). Essays [tr. by Cotton, p.282

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