Men throw themselves on foreign assistances to spare their own, which, after all, are the only certain and sufficient ones. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Wine is the benevolent god, who gives back gaiety to men and restores youth to the old. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom. — 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
It is not a mind, it is not a body that we educate, but it is a man, and we must not… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Philosophical discussions habitually make men happy and joyful not frowning and sad. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm or a flea and yet will create Gods by the dozen! — 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 utility of living consists not in the length of days, but in the use of time; a man may have lived… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The first distinction among men, and the first consideration that gave one precedence over another, was doubtless the advantage of beauty. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Not because Socrates said so, but because it is in truth my own disposition - and perchance to some excess - I… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The daughter-in-law of Pythagoras said that a woman who goes to bed with a man ought to lay aside her modesty with… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Who is only good that others may know it, and that he may be the better esteemed when 'tis known, who will… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
There is a huge gulf between the man who follows the conventions and laws of his country and the man who sets… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
No man dies before his hour. The time you leave behind was no more yours, than that which was before your birth,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Man will rise, if God by exception lends him a hand; he will rise by abandoning and renouncing his own means, and… — 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 Image
Every man may speak truly, but to speak methodically, prudently, and fully is a talent that few men have. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
A liar would be brave toward God, while he is a coward toward men; for a lie faces God, and shrinks from… — 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
Men are tormented by the opinions they have of things, and not the things themselves. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
It is much more easy to accuse the one sex than to excuse the other. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
There is nothing which so poisons princes as flattery, nor anything whereby wicked men more easily obtain credit and favor with them. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
For there is no air that men so greedily draw in, that diffuses itself so soon, and that penetrates so deep as… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
A man should not so much respect what he eats, as with whom he eats. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The truth of these days is not that which really is, but what every man persuades another man to believe. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Since I would rather make of him an able man than a learned man, I would also urge that care be taken… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
No two men ever judged alike of the same thing, and it is impossible to find two opinions exactly similar, not only… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Whatever is preached to us, and whatever we learn, we should still remember that it is man that gives, and man that… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The great and glorious masterpiece of men is to live to the point. All other things-to reign, to hoard, to build-are, at… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The plague of man is the opinion of knowledge. That is why ignorance is so recommended by our religion as a quality… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“Human understanding is marvellously enlightened by daily conversation with men, for we are, otherwise, compressed and heaped up in ourselves, and have… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
A man should ever, as much as in him lieth, be ready booted to take his journey, and above all things look… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
We find ourselves more taken with the running up and down, the games, and puerile simplicities of our children, than we do,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The wise man should withdraw his soul within, out of the crowd, and keep it in freedom and power to judge things… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
An honest man is not accountable for the vice and folly of his trade, and therefore ought not to refuse the exercise… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The recognition of virtue is not less valuable from the lips of the man who hates it, since truth forces him to… — 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
