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Michel De Montaigne Quotes
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Princes give me sufficiently if they take nothing from me, and do me much good if they do me no hurt; it is all I require of them (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
A man should keep for himself a little back shop, all his own, quite unadulterated, in which he establishes his true freedom and chief place of seclusion and solitude (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
It is the part of cowardliness, and not of virtue, to seek to squat itself in some hollow lurking hole, or to hide herself under some massive tomb, thereby to shun the strokes of fortune (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
Of all the benefits which virtue confers on us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
Satiety comes of too frequent repetition and he who will not give himself leisure to be thirsty can never find the true pleasure of drinking (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss; his accusations of himself are always believed; his praises never (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
When we see a man with bad shoes, we say it is no wonder, if he is a shoemaker (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
The only good histories are those written by those who had command in the events they describe (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
Even opinion is of force enough to make itself to be espoused at the expense of life (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
An orator of past times declared that his calling was to make small things appear to be grand (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
The secret counsels of princes are a troublesome burden to such as have only to execute them (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
There are as many and innumerable degrees of wit, as there are cubits between this and heaven (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
And to bring in a new word by the head and shoulders, they leave out the old one (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
Every one’s true worship was that which he found in use in the place where he chanced to be (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
Were I to live my life over again, I should live it just as I have done. I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
Learned we may be with another man’s learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
It is a small soul, buried beneath the weight of affairs, that does not know how to get clean away from them, that cannot put them aside and pick them up again (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
Such as are in immediate fear of a losing their estates, of banishment, or of slavery, live in perpetual anguish, and lose all appetite and repose; whereas such as are actually poor, slaves, or exiles, ofttimes live as merrily as other folk (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
There is as much difference between us and ourselves as there is between us and others (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
In general I ask for books that make use of learning, not those that build it up (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
There is no knowledge so hard to acquire as the knowledge of how to live this life well and naturally (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
Natural inclinations are assisted and reinforced by education, but they are hardly ever altered or overcome (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
Valor is strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul; it consists not in the worth of our horse or our weapons, but in our own (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
It is putting a very high price on one’s conjectures to have someone roasted alive on their account (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing except wind (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
I do not believe, from what I have been told about this people, that there is anything barbarous or savage about them, except that we all call barbarous anything that is contrary to our own habits (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
I know that the arms of friendship are long enough to reach from the one end of the world to the other (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
My business is only to keep myself in motion, whilst motion pleases me; I only walk for the walk’s sake (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)