We have the pleasures suitable to our lot; let us not usurp those of greatness. Ours are more natural and all the… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from Custom. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
There is no virtue which does not rejoice a well-descended nature; there is a kind of I know not what congratulation in… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Whom conscience, ne'er asleep, Wounds with incessant strokes, not loud, but deep. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
There is indeed a certain sense of gratification when we do a good deed that gives us inward satisfaction, and a generous… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The shortest way to arrive at glory should be to do that for conscience which we do for glory. And the virtue… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The laws of conscience, though we ascribe them to nature, actually come from custom. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The shortest way to arrive at glory would be to do that for conscience which we do for glory. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
In the examples that I here bring in of what I have [read], heard, done or said, I have refrained from daring… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
If I am to serve as an instrument of deceit, at least let it be with a clear conscience. I do not… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
If not for that of conscience, yet at least for ambition's sake, let us reject ambition, let us disdain that thirst of… — 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
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