Socrates ... brought human wisdom back down from heaven, where she was wasting her time, and restored her to man… It is… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
My errors are by now natural and incorrigible; but the good that worthy men do the public by making themselves imitable, I… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The general order of things that takes care of fleas and moles also takes care of men, if they will have the… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
We endeavor more that men should speak of us, than how and what they speak, and it sufficeth us that our name… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
We are nearer neighbors to ourselves than the whiteness of snow or the weight of stones are to us: if man does… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Health is a precious thing, and the only one, in truth, meriting that a man should lay out not only his time,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
'As a man who knows how to make his education into a rule of life not a means of showing off; who… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
A man may by custom fortify himself against pain, shame, and suchlike accidents; but as to death, we can experience it but… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Women are not altogether in the wrong when they refuse the rules of life prescribed to the World, for men only have… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
A man never speaks of himself without losing something. What he says in his disfavor is always beleived, but when he commends… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Some men seem remarkable to the world in whom neither their wives nor their valets saw anything extraordinary. Few men have been… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man; some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism,… — 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
Man is the sole animal whose nudities offend his own companions, and the only one who, in his natural actions, withdraws 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
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
