A speech belongs half to the speaker and half to the listener. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Silence and modesty are very valuable qualities in conversation. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees. — 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
I love a friendship that flatters itself in the sharpness and vigor of its communications. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
No pleasure is fully delightful without communications, and no delight absolute except imparted. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Everyone may speak truly, but to speak logically, prudently, and adequately is a talent few possess. — Michel De Montaigne Copy Share Image
Speech belongs half to the speaker, half to the listener. The latter must prepare to receive it according to the motion it… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Our speech has its weaknesses and its defects, like all the rest. Most of the occasions for the troubles of the world… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Authors communicate with the people by some special extrinsic mark; I am the first to do so by my entire being, as… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
"Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation." -If you press me to say why I… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“Human understanding is marvellously enlightened by daily conversation with men, for we are, otherwise, compressed and heaped up in ourselves, and have… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
In my opinion, the most fruitful and natural play of the mind is in conversation. I find it sweeter than any other… — 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
