Background Image
Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
-Michel De Montaigne
Please Wait....
Translating....

Of All Our Infirmities, The Most Savage

Michel De Montaigne
Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
Views: 17
Cite this Page
Prevent plagiarism by providing proper attribution.
APA FORMAT
Embed this Quote
Copy this HTML code to embed the quote on your website or blog.
HTML CODE
Topic
Confidence Self Esteem Acceptance

More From Michel De Montaigne

I told them i was but a man, and they must not expect me to be perfect; if they expected perfection from me, i should expect it from them; but if they would bear with my infirmities and the infirmities of the brethren, i would likewise bear with their infirmities.
Friendship Men Perfect
Never to despise in myself what i have been taught to despise. nor to despise the other. not to despise the it. to make this relation with the it: to know that i am it.
Tolerance Taught Despise
As a result, the highly civilized man can endure incomparably more than the savage, whether of moral or physical strain. being better able to control himself under all circumstances, he has a great advantage over the savage.
Men Savages Literature
Somehow, women's romance novels are not titled he stopped when i said "no". they are, though, titled sweet savage love, in which the woman rejects the hand of her gentler lover who saves her from the rapist and marries the man who repeatedly and savagely rapes her. it is this "marry the rapist" theme that not only turned sweet savage love into a best-seller but also into one of women's most enduring romance novels.
Sweet Men Hands
"all right then," said the savage defiantly, i'm claiming the right to be unhappy." "not to mention the right to grow old and ugly and impotent; the right to have syphilis and cancer; the right to have too little to eat, the right to be lousy; the right to live in constant apprehension of what may happen tomorrow; the right to catch typhoid; the right to be tortured by unspeakable pains of every kind." there was a long silence. "i claim them all," said the savage at last.
Pain Cancer Long
We have all of us free access to all that is great, and good, and happy, and carry within ourselves a key to all the treasures that heaven has to bestow upon us. we starve in the midst of plenty, groan under infirmities, with the remedy in our own hand; live and die without knowing and feeling anything of the one only god, whilst we have it in our power to know and enjoy it in as great a reality as we know and feel the power of this world over us; for heaven is as near to our souls as this world is to our bodies; and we are created, we are redeemed, to have our conversation in it.
God Reality Keys
Similar Quotes
But by faith you look in the mirror and see a robed prodigal bearing the ring of grace on your finger and the kiss of your father on your face.
God Christian Religious
All is vanity but to love god and serve him.
Vanity God Love
If only we can overcome cruelty, to human and animal, with love and compassion we shall stand at the threshold of a new era in human moral and spiritual evolution - and realize, at last, our most unique quality: humanity.
God Spiritual Compassion
How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, “this is better than we thought! the universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant?” instead they say, “no, no, no! my god is a little god, and i want him to stay that way.” a religion, old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths.
God Science Religion

Trending Author

Kelly Slater
Kelly Slater
Buzz Aldrin
Buzz Aldrin
Theodore Dreiser
Theodore Dreiser
Harriet Ann Jacobs
Harriet Ann Jacobs
John Marshall
John Marshall
Ed Miliband
Ed Miliband
Category
Information
Inspirational
Philosophy
Personal Growth
Happiness & Joy
Life Lessons
Success & Business
Motivation