There is a plague on Man, the opinion that he knows something. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
All the opinions in the world point out that pleasure is our aim. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“I care not so much what I am in the opinion of others, as what I am in my own.” — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Almost all the opinions we have are taken on authority and on credit. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Even opinion is of force enough to make itself to be espoused at the expense of life. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
It is setting a high value upon our opinions to roast men and women alive on account of them. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
When I express my opinions it is so as to reveal the measure of my sight not the measure of the thing. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Thus we should beware of clinging to vulgar opinions, and judge things by reason's way, not by popular say. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I look upon the too good opinion that man has of himself, as the nursing mother of all false opinions, both public… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
All we do is to look after the opinions and learning of others: we ought to make them our own. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
All opinions in the world agree in this, that pleasure is our end, although they differ as to the means of attaining… — 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
Plenty and indigence depend upon the opinion every one has of them; and riches, like glory of health, have no more beauty… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
As by some might be saide of me: that here I have but gathered a nosegay of strange floures, and have put… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I am much afraid that we shall have very greatly hastened the decline and ruin of the New World by our contagion,… — 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
My opinion is that we must lend ourselves to others and give ourselves only to ourselves. If my will happened to be… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
If these Essays were worthy of being judged, it might fall out, in my opinion, that they would not find much favour,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
My library is my kingdom, and here I try to make my rule absolute-shutting off this single nook from wife, daughter and… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I enter into discussion and argument with great freedom and ease, inasmuch as opinion finds me in a bad soil to penetrate… — 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
Of all human and ancient opinions concerning religion, that seems to me the most likely and most excusable, that acknowledged God as… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
We have no participation in Being, because all human nature is ever midway between being born and dying, giving off only a… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The first law that ever God gave to man was a law of pure obedience; it was a commandment naked and simple,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The diversity of physical arguments and opinions embraces all sorts of methods. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
We should be similarly wary of accepting common opinions; we should judge them by the ways of reason not by popular vote. — 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
In my opinion it is the happy living, and not, as Antisthenes said, the happy lying, in which human happiness consists. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
There is nothing on which men are commonly more intent than on making a way for their opinions. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
There never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains; the most universal quality is… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The relish of good and evil depends in a great measure upon the opinion we have of them. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
From Obedience and submission comes all our virtues, and all sin is comes from self-opinion. — 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
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
