Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge ourselves with railing against it. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I have never known a greater miracle, or monster, than myself. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself. — Michel De Montaigne Copy Share Image
There is nothing so extreme that is not allowed by the custom of some nation or other. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The lack of wealth is easily repaired but the poverty of the soul is irreplaceable. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Friendship is a creature formed for a companionship not for a herd. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
There is nothing on which men are commonly more intent than on making a way for their opinions. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Once you have decided to keep a certain pile, it is no longer yours; for you can't spend it. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The secret counsels of princes are a troublesome burden to such as have only to execute them. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Amongst so many borrowed things, am glad if I can steal one, disguising and altering it for some new service. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
We seem ambitious God's whole work to undo. ...With new diseases on ourselves we war, And with new physic, a worse engine… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I have gathered a posy of other mens flowers and only the thread that bonds them is my own. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The strength of any plan depends on the time. Circumstances and things eternally shift and change. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Nothing else but an insatiate thirst of enjoying a greedily desired object. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
All passions that suffer themselves to be relished and digested are but moderate. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
It is an absolute perfection... to get the very most out of one's individuality. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
When we see a man with bad shoes, we say it is no wonder, if he is a shoemaker. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
We are more solicitous that men speak of us, than how they speak. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Give me the provisions and whole apparatus of a kitchen, and I would starve. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Children's games are hardly games. Children are never more serious than when they play. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Glory and repose are things that cannot possibly inhabit in one and the same place. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Every place swarms with commentaries; of authors there is great scarcity. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Disappointment and feebleness imprint upon us a cowardly and valetudinarian virtue. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Only he can judge of matters great and high whose soul is likewise. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The laws of conscience, though we ascribe them to nature, actually come from custom. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Like the watermen who advance forward while they look backward. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
In love, 'tis no other than frantic desire for that which flies from us. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share
The laws keep up their credit, not by being just, but because they are laws; 'tis the mystic foundation of their authority; they have… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share
Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share
Beauty is the true prerogative of women, and so peculiarly their own, that our sex, though naturally requiring another sort of feature, is never… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share
The height and value of true virtue consists in the facility, utility, and pleasure of its exercise; so far from difficulty, that boys, as… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share
The plainest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness: her state is like that of things in the regions above the moon, always clear… — Michel De Montaigne Copy Share
The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man; some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share
If people must be talking about me, I would have it to be truthfully and justly. I would willingly return from the next world… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share
In true friendship, in which I am expert, I give myself to my friend more than I draw him to me. I not only… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share
There are as many and innumerable degrees of wit, as there are cubits between this and heaven. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share
Lucius Arruntius killed himself, he said, to escape both the future and the past. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share
I have a vocabulary all my own. I pass the time when itis wet and disagreeable. Whenit is fine I do not wish to… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share
