John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
9313 Mihel Eyquem
| NUMBER: | 9313 |
| AUTHOR: | Michel Eyquem, seigneur de Montaigne (1533–1592) |
| QUOTATION: | ’T is so much to be a king, that he only is so by being so. The strange lustre that surrounds him conceals and shrouds him from us; our sight is there broken and dissipated, being stopped and filled by the prevailing light. 1 |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Book iii. Chap. vii. Of the Inconveniences of Greatness. |
| Note 1. See Tennyson, Quotation 67. [back] |