The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The religion of my doctor or my lawyer cannot matter. That consideration has nothing in common with the functions of the friendship… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
This very Rome that we behold deserves our love ...: the only common and universal city. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The most ordinary things, the most common and familiar, if we could see them in their true light, would turn out to… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The most beautiful lives, to my mind, are those that conform to the common human pattern, with order, but without miracle and… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Truth and reason are common to everyone, and are no more his who spake them first than his who speaks them after. — 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 world is but a perennial movement. All things in it are in constant motion-the earth, the rocks of the Caucasus, the… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The vulgar and common esteem is seldom happy in hitting right; and I am much mistaken if, amongst the writings of my… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
We hold death, poverty, and grief for our principal enemies; but this death, which some repute the most dreadful of all dreadful… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common… — 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
And as hearbes and trees are bettered and fortified by being transplanted, so formes of speach are embellished and graced by variation…… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
It is probable that the principal credit of miracles, visions, enchantments, and such extraordinary occurrences comes from the power of imagination, acting… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
It is a stupid presumption to go about despising and condemning as false anything that seems to us improbable; this is a… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
As for our pupils talk, let his virtue and his sense of right and wrong shine through it and have no guide… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
To begin depriving death of its greatest advantage over us, let us adopt a way clean contrary to that common one; let… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The common notions that we find in credit around us and infused into our souls by our fathers' seed, these seem to… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I love those historians that are either very simple or most excellent. Such as are between both (which is the most common… — 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
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
