Difficulty is a coin the learned make use of like jugglers, to conceal the inanity of their art. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Among the liberal arts, let us begin with the art that liberates us. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
If I were of the trade, I should naturalize art as much as they "artialize" nature. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
But sure there is need of other remedies than dreaming, a weak contention of art against nature. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“Mon métier et mon art c’est vivre. [My craft and my skill is living.]” — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure no slight pleasure. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Dreams are faithful interpreters of our inclinations; but there is art required to sort and understand them. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
No one but yourself knows whether you are cowardly and cruel, or loyal and devout; others do not see you; they surmise… — 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
The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts, and the great art of life is to have as many of them… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Is it reasonable that even the arts should take advantage of and profit by our natural stupidity and feebleness of mind? — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
A wellborn mind that is practiced in dealing with people makes itself thoroughly agreeable by itself. Art is nothing else but thelist… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure; neither the greatest captains nor the greatest… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Whatever I may be, I want to be elsewhere than on paper. My art and my industry have been employed in making… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
We are neither obstinately nor wilfully to oppose evils, nor truckle under them for want of courage, but that we are naturally… — 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
It is not reasonable that art should win the place of honor over our great and powerful mother Nature. We have so… — 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
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