WIST Quotations<p><a href="https://wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/37517/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A quotation from <b>Montaigne</b></a></p><blockquote>The mind that has no fixed goal loses itself; for as they say, to be everywhere is to be nowhere.<br> <br><i>[L’âme qui n’a point de but établi, elle se perd: car comme on dit, c;est n’ètre en aucun lieu que d’être partout.]</i></blockquote><p><b>Michel de Montaigne</b> (1533-1592) French essayist<br><i>Essays</i>, Book 1, ch. 8 “Of Idleness <i>[De l’Oisiveté]</i>” (1572) (1.8) (1595) [tr. Ives (1925)]</p><p>Sourcing / notes / alternate translations: <a href="https://wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/37517/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" 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 noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=aim" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>aim</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=concentration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>concentration</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=discipline" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>discipline</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=focus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>focus</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=getlost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>getlost</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=goal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>goal</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=intent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>intent</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=meme" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>meme</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=mind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mind</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=purpose" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>purpose</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=soul" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>soul</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=target" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>target</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=wander" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wander</span></a></p>