If others surpass you in knowledge, in charm, in strength, in fortune, you have other causes to blame for it; but if… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Why dost thou complain of this world? It detains thee not; thy own cowardice is the cause, if thou livest in pain. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
What harm cause not those huge draughts or pictures which wanton youth with chalk or coals draw in each passage, wall or… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“Fortune does us neither good nor hurt; she only presents us the matter and the seed, which our soul, more powerful than… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Our thoughts are always elsewhere; we are stayed and supported by the hope for a better life, or by the hope that… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
How often, being moved under a false cause, if the person offending makes a good defense and presents us with a just… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
No profession or occupation is more pleasing than the military; a profession or exercise both noble in execution (for the strongest, most… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
He who remembers the evils he has undergone, and those that have threatened him, and the slight causes that have changed him… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Water, earth, air, fire, and the other parts of this structure of mine are no more instruments of your life than instruments… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Great authors, when they write about causes, adduce not only those they think are true but also those they do not believe… — 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
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 Image
Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
Fie on the eloquence that leaves us craving itself, not things! — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
There are as many and innumerable degrees of wit, as there are cubits between this and heaven. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
