Men Quotes by Michel de Montaigne

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

— Michel de Montaigne

There is a plague on Man, the opinion that he knows something.

— Michel de Montaigne

Men are nothing until they are excited.

— Michel de Montaigne

A man must either imitate the vicious or hate them.

— Michel de Montaigne

Wise men have more to learn of fools than fools of wise men.

— Michel de Montaigne

Few men are admired by their servants.

— Michel de Montaigne

Few men have been admired of their familiars.

— Michel de Montaigne

A man must become wise at his own expense.

— Michel de Montaigne

In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our…

— Michel de Montaigne

The curiosity of knowing things has been given to man for a scourge.

— Michel de Montaigne

It is setting a high value upon our opinions to roast men and women alive on account of them.

— Michel de Montaigne

Lying is a terrible vice, it testifies that one despises God, but fears men.

— Michel de Montaigne

As far as fidelity is concerned, there is no animal in the world as treacherous as man.

— Michel de Montaigne

Oh these foolish men! They could not create so much as a worm, but they create gods by the dozens.

— Michel de Montaigne

..a man may live long, yet live very little. Satisfaction in life depends not on the number of your years, but on…

— Michel de Montaigne

Necessity reconciles and brings men together; and this accidental connection afterward forms itself into laws.

— Michel de Montaigne

Now there cannot be first principles for men, unless the Divinity has revealed them; all the rest--beginning, middle, and end--isnothing but dreams…

— Michel de Montaigne

I find no quality so easy for a man to counterfeit as devotion, though his life and manner are not conformable to…

— Michel de Montaigne

The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some men have lived long, and lived little; attend to…

— Michel de Montaigne

There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thoughts under the scrutiny of the laws, he…

— Michel de Montaigne

God is favorable to those whom he makes to die by degrees; 'tis the only benefit of old age. The last death…

— Michel de Montaigne

After they had accustomed themselves at Rome to the spectacles of the slaughter of animals, they proceeded to those of the slaughter…

— Michel de Montaigne

We do not know where death awaits us: so let us wait for it everywhere. To practice death is to practice freedom.…

— Michel de Montaigne

But the touch or company of any man whatsoever stirreth up their heat, which in their solitude was hushed and quiet, and…

— Michel de Montaigne

There is no passion that so much transports men from their right judgments as anger. No one would demur upon punishing a…

— Michel de Montaigne

One man may have some special knowledge at first-hand about the character of a river or a spring, who otherwise knows only…

— Michel de Montaigne

The worthiest man to be known, and for a pattern to be presented to the world, he is the man of whom…

— Michel de Montaigne

We commend a horse for his strength, and sureness of foot, and not for his rich caparisons; a greyhound for his share…

— Michel de Montaigne

Men do not know the natural infirmity of their mind: it does nothing but ferret and quest, and keeps incessantly whirling around,…

— Michel de Montaigne

To begin depriving death of its greatest advantage over us, let us adopt a way clean contrary to that common one; let…

— Michel de Montaigne

My trade and my art is living. He who forbids me to speak about it according to my sense, experience, and practice,…

— Michel de Montaigne

He who remembers the evils he has undergone, and those that have threatened him, and the slight causes that have changed him…

— Michel de Montaigne

No man is a hero to his own valet.

— Michel de Montaigne

A man has need of tough ears to hear himself fairly judged.

— Michel de Montaigne

Every man has within himself the entire human condition

— Michel de Montaigne

We do not correct the man we hang; we correct others by him.

— Michel de Montaigne

A man should ever be ready booted to take his journey.

— Michel de Montaigne

The beauty of stature is the only beauty of men.

— Michel de Montaigne

How many valiant men we have seen to survive their own reputation!

— Michel de Montaigne

I never met a man who thought his thinking was faulty.

— Michel de Montaigne