Reason has so many forms that we do not know which to choose-Experiment has no fewer. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
All other knowledge is hurtful to him who has not honesty and good-nature — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Our wisdom and deliberation for the most part follow the lead of chance. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Virtue can have naught to do with ease. . . . It craves a steep and thorny path. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Saying is one thing, doing another. We must consider the sermon and the preacher distinctly and apart. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and apply myself to them if they will not apply themselves to me. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
When I quote others I do so in order to express my own ideas more clearly. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The great and glorious masterpiece of humanity is to know how to live with a purpose. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The dispersing and scattering our names into many mouths, we call making them more great. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
We should rather examine, who is better learned, than who is more learned. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
A little of everything and nothing thoroughly, after the French fashion. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
He who does not live in some degree for others, hardly lives for himself. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
It is not the want, but rather abundance that creates avarice. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Repentance is but a denying of our will, and an opposition of our fantasies. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Tis the taste of effeminacy that disrelishes ordinary and accustomed things. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Intelligence is required to be able to know that a man knows not. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
We find our energies are actually cramped when we are overanxious to succeed. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Nobody is exempt from saying stupid things, the harm is to do it presumptuously. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The perpetual work of your life is but to lay the foundation of death. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
A man must learn to endure patiently what he cannot avoid conveniently. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Men ... are not agreed about any one thing, not even that heaven is over our heads. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The oldest and best known evil was ever more supportable than one that was new and untried. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Praise is always pleasing, let it come from whom, or upon what account it will. — 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
