Michel de Montaigne Quotes on Time
Michel de Montaigne was a French Renaissance philosopher and the inventor of the modern essay. This page collects quotes attributed to Michel de Montaigne on the topic of time, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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“'T is one and the same Nature that rolls on her course, and whoever has sufficiently considered the present state of things might certainly conclude as to both the future and the past.”
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919) | Book II, Ch. 12. Apology for Raimond Sebond -
“For truth itself does not have the privilege to be employed at any time and in every way; its use, noble as it is, has its circumscriptions and limits.”
Book III | Ch. 13 -
“I live from day to day, and content myself with having enough to meet my present and ordinary needs; for the extraordinary, all the provision in the world could not suffice.”
Book I | Ch. 14 -
“Live as long as you please, you will strike nothing off the time you will have to spend dead.”
Book I | Ch. 20. Of the Force of Imagination