WIST Quotations<p><a href="https://wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/40705/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">A quotation from <b>Montaigne</b></a></p><blockquote>We must learn to suffer whatever we cannot avoid. Our life is composed, like the harmony of the world, of discords as well as of different tones, sweet and harsh, sharp and flat, soft and loud. If a musician liked only some of them, what could he sing? He has got to know how to use all of them and blend them together. So too must we with good and ill, which are of one substance with our life. Without such blending our being cannot be: one category is no less necessary than the other.<br> <br><i>[Il faut apprendre à souffrir, ce qu’on ne peut eviter. Nostre vie est composee, comme l’harmonie du monde, de choses contraires, aussi de divers tons, doux & aspres, aigus & plats, mols & graves : Le Musicien qui n’en aymeroit que les uns, que voudroit il dire ? Il faut qu’il s’en sçache servir en commun, & les mesler. Et nous aussi, les biens & les maux, qui sont consubstantiels à nostre vie. Nostre estre ne peut sans ce meslange, & y est l’une bande non moins necessaire que l’autre. ]</i></blockquote><p><b>Michel de Montaigne</b> (1533-1592) French essayist<br>Essay (1587), “Of Experience [De l’Experience], <i>Essays</i>, Book 3, ch. 13 (3.13) (1595) [tr. Screech (1987)]</p> <p>Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: <a href="https://wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/40705/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…</a></p><p><a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=badfortune" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>badfortune</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=badluck" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>badluck</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=endurance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>endurance</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=evil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>evil</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=experience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>experience</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=fortune" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fortune</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=good" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>good</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=goodfortune" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>goodfortune</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=goodluck" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>goodluck</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=life" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>life</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=misfortune" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>misfortune</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=mixture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mixture</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=suffering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>suffering</span></a></p>