Love Quotes by Michel de Montaigne

Habit is second nature.

— Michel de Montaigne

He loves little who loves by rule.

— Michel de Montaigne

The most universal quality is diversity.

— Michel de Montaigne

To philosophize is to doubt.

— Michel de Montaigne

I am myself the matter of my book.

— Michel de Montaigne

May God defend me from myself.

— Michel de Montaigne

What a man hates, he takes seriously.

— Michel de Montaigne

My appetite comes to me while eating.

— Michel de Montaigne

Nothing else but an insatiate thirst of enjoying a greedily desired object.

— Michel de Montaigne

All passions that suffer themselves to be relished and digested are but moderate.

— Michel de Montaigne

He who would teach men to die would teach them to live.

— Michel de Montaigne

It is an absolute perfection... to get the very most out of one's individuality.

— Michel de Montaigne

There is nothing so extreme that is not allowed by the custom of some nation or other.

— Michel de Montaigne

Tis faith alone that vividly and certainly comprehends the deep mysteries of our religion.

— Michel de Montaigne

Why did I love her? Because it was her; because it was me.

— Michel de Montaigne

I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice.

— Michel de Montaigne

If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed,…

— Michel de Montaigne

Oh, a friend! How true is that old saying, that the enjoyment of one is sweeter and more necessary than that of…

— Michel de Montaigne

If love and ambition should be in equal balance, and come to jostle with equal force, I make no doubt but that…

— Michel de Montaigne

A father is very miserable who has no other hold on his children's affection than the need they have of his assistance,…

— Michel de Montaigne

A learned man is not learned in all things; but a sufficient man is sufficient throughout, even to ignorance itself.

— Michel de Montaigne

Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world…

— Michel de Montaigne

Lovers are angry, reconciled, entreat, thank, appoint, and finally speak all things, by their.

— Michel de Montaigne

A good marriage (if any there be) refuses the conditions of love and endeavors to present those of amity.

— Michel de Montaigne

Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words…

— Michel de Montaigne

Marriage has, for its share, usefulness, justice, honour, and constancy; a stale but more durable pleasure. Love is grounded on pleasure alone,…

— Michel de Montaigne

"Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation." -If you press me to say why I…

— Michel de Montaigne

Teach him a certain refinement in sorting out and selecting his arguments, with an affection for relevance and so for brevity. Above…

— Michel de Montaigne

Courtesy, like grace and beauty, that which begets liking and inclination to love one another at the first sight, and in the…

— Michel de Montaigne

“I know not what quintessence of all this mixture, which, seizing my whole will, carried it to plunge and lose itself in…

— Michel de Montaigne

Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and…

— Michel de Montaigne

In true friendship, in which I am expert, I give myself to my friend more than I draw him to me. I…

— Michel de Montaigne

“We thought we were tying our marriage-knots more tightly by removing all means of undoing them;22 but the tighter we pulled the…

— Michel de Montaigne

It needs courage to be afraid.

— Michel de Montaigne

We are all of us richer than we think we are.

— Michel de Montaigne

You have your face bare; I am all face.

— Michel de Montaigne

We have power over nothing except our will.

— Michel de Montaigne

We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade.

— Michel de Montaigne

I do not understand; I pause; I examine.

— Michel de Montaigne

He who lives not to others, lives little to himself.

— Michel de Montaigne