Quote of Michel de Montaigne - My trade and art is to...

Biography - Michel de Montaigne:

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne is a French Renaissance writer and philosopher.
Born: 1533 - Died: 1592
Period:
16th century
Place of birth: France
France

Quote

My trade and art is to live.”
Michel de Montaigne - Essays

Translation

(French, German)

Mon métier et mon art, c'est vivre.”
Michel de Montaigne - Essais

Mein Gewerbe und meine Kunst sind zu leben.”
Michel de Montaigne - Essais

Quotes for: to live:

To live means to love, but above all, to love life.”
Blanche Pierson

Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.”
Seneca - Epistulae morales ad Lucilium

You can't live at all, unless you can live fully now.”
Alan Watts

"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly, "one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."”
Hans Christian Andersen

To live without philosophizing is properly to have one's eyes closed and never attempt to open them.”
René Descartes - Principles of Philosophy

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.”
Leonardo da Vinci

All to live quotes...

Quotes about art:

Truly, art is embedded in nature; he who can extract it, has it.”
Albrecht Dürer

The more I think about it the more I feel that there’s nothing more genuinely artistic than to love people.”
Vincent Willem van Gogh

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.”
Pablo Picasso

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.”
Marcus Aurelius

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.”
Oscar Wilde

Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.”
Frédéric Chopin

All about art...

Michel de Montaigne also said...

I think my opinions are good and sound, but who does not think the same of his own?”
Michel de Montaigne - Essays

opinion

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.”
Michel de Montaigne - Essays

to be

Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness.”
Michel de Montaigne - Essays

When someone opposes me, he arouses my attention, not my anger. I go to greet a man who contradicts me, who instructs me.”
Michel de Montaigne - Essays

anger

There are certain things that we hide in order to reveal them.”
Michel de Montaigne - Essays

The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.”
Michel de Montaigne

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