We are more solicitous that men speak of us, than how they speak. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Man in sooth is a marvellous, vain, fickle, and unstable subject. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Man is forming thousands of ridiculous relations between himself and God. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
No man divulges his revenue, or at least which way it comes in: but every one publishes his acquisitions. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I listen with attention to the judgement of all men; but so far as I can remember, I have followed none but… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Truly man is a marvelously vain, diverse, and undulating object. It is hard to found any constant and uniform judgment on him. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
God defend me from being an honest man according to the description which every day I see made by each man to… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I consider myself an average man, except in the fact that I consider myself an average man. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
If faces were not alike, we could not distinguish men from beasts; if they were not different, we could not tell one… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Each man calls barbarism whatever is not his own practice; for indeed it seems we have no other test of truth and… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Examples teach us that in military affairs, and all others of a like nature, study is apt to enervate and relax the… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
To speak less of oneself than what one really is, is folly, not modesty; and to take that for current pay which… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Man (in good earnest) is a marvellous vain, fickle, and unstable subject, and on whom it is very hard to form any… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Most men are rich in borrowed sufficiency: a man may very well say a good thing, give a good answer, cite a… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
A young man ought to cross his own rules, to awake his vigor, and to keep it from growing faint and rusty.… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
After a tongue has once got the knack of lying, it is not to be imagined how impossible almost it is to… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
And I loathe people who find it harder to put up with a gown askew than with a soul askew and who… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
In his commerce with men I mean him to include- and that principally- those who live only in the memory of books.… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
[I]n my country, when they would say a man has no sense, they say, such an one has no memory; and when… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
To call out for the hand of the enemy is a rather extreme measure, yet a better one, I think, than to… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The laws keep up their credit, not by being just, but because they are laws; 'tis the mystic foundation of their authority;… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
We have more poets than judges and interpreters of poetry. It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Traveling through the world produces a marvelous clarity in the judgment of men. We are all of us confined and enclosed within… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Learning is a good medicine: but no medicine is powerful enough to preserve itself from taint and corruption independently of defects in… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Business in a certain sort of men is a mark of understanding, and they are honored for it. Their souls seek repose… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I must use these great men's virtues as a cloak for my weakness. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The wise man lives as long as he ought, not so long as he can. — 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
![“[I]n my country, when they would say a man has no sense, they say, such an one has no memory; and when I complain of the defect of mine, they do not believe me, and reprove me, as though I accused myself for a fool: not discerning the difference betwixt memory and understanding, which is to make…” quote by Michel de Montaigne](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/ee5/michel-de-montaigne-142_accused_i-n-my-country-when-they-would-say-a-man_2773372.jpg)
