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Michel De Montaigne Quotes
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There are few things on which we can pass a sincere judgement, because there are few things in which we have not, in one way or another, a particular interest (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
If my intentions were not to be read in my eyes and voice, I should not have survived so long without quarrels and without harm, seeing the indiscreet freedom with which I say, right or wrong, whatever comes into my head (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
Most of our occupations are low comedy... We must play our part duly, but as the part of a borrowed character. Of the mask and appearance we must not make a real essence, nor of what is foreign what is our very own (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
I say that male and female are cast in the same mold; except for education and habits, the difference is not great (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
What a wonderful thing it is that drop of seed, from which we are produced, bears in itself the impressions, not only of the bodily shape, but of the thoughts and inclinations of our fathers! (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
I see this evident, that we willingly accord to piety only the services that flatter our passions (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
What fear has once made me will, I am bound still to will when without fear (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
All opinions in the world agree in this, that pleasure is our end, although they differ as to the means of attaining it (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
Is it not enough to make me come back to life out of spite, to have someone who spat in my face while I existed come and rub my feet when I am beginning to exist no longer? (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
We have the pleasures suitable to our lot; let us not usurp those of greatness. Ours are more natural and all the more solid and sure for being humbler. Since we will not do so out of conscience, at least out of ambition let us reject ambition (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
I am disgusted with innovation, in whatever guise, and with reason, for I have seen very harmful effects of it (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
In my youth I studied for ostentation; later, a little to gain wisdom; now, for recreation; never for gain (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
Truly it is reasonable to make a great distinction between the faults that come from our weakness and those that come from our wickedness (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
... whoever believes anything esteems that it is a work of charity to persuade another of it (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
Is it not better to remain in suspense than to entangle yourself in the many errors that the human fancy has produced? Is it not better to suspend your convictions than to get mixed up in these seditious and quarrelsome divisions? (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
I honor most those to whom I show least honor; and where my soul moves with great alacrity, I forget the proper steps of ceremony (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
Presumption is our natural and original malady. The most vulnerable and frail of all creatures is man, and at the same time the most arrogant (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
My opinion is that we must lend ourselves to others and give ourselves only to ourselves. If my will happened to be prone to mortgage and attach itself, I would not last: I am too tender, both by nature and by practice (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
To say less of yourself than is true is stupidity, not modesty. To pay yourself less than you are worth is cowardice and pusillanimity (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
There is a certain amount of purpose, acquiescence, and satisfaction in nursing one’s melancholy (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
Our own peculiar human condition is that we are as fit to be laughed at as able to laugh (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
The most beautiful lives, to my mind, are those that conform to the common human pattern, with order, but without miracle and without eccentricity (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
We perceive no charms that are not sharpened, puffed out, and inflated by artifice. Those which glide along naturally and simply easily escape a sight so gross as ours (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
Tortures are a dangerous invention, and seem to be a test of endurance rather than of truth (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
People of our time are so formed for agitation and ostentation that goodness, moderation, equability, constancy, and such quiet and obscure qualities are no longer felt (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
We are nothing but ceremony; ceremony carries us away, and we leave the substance of things; we hang on to the branches and abandon the trunk and body (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
In truth, the care and expense of our fathers aims only at furnishing our heads with knowledge; of judgement and virtue, little news (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
We do not know where death awaits us: so let us wait for it everywhere. To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
Don’t discuss yourself, for you are bound to lose; if you belittle yourself, you are believed; if you praise yourself, you are disbelieved (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)