Age imprints more wrinkles a in the mind, than it does in the face, and souls are never, or very rarely seen,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
If falsehood, like truth, had but one face, we would be more on equal terms. For we would consider the contrary of… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Socrates, who was a perfect model in all great qualities, ... hit on a body and face so ugly and so incongruous… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
For all parts of the body that we see fit to expose to the wind and air are found fit to endure… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
How often our involuntary facial motions testify to the thoughts we were keeping secret, and betray us to those around! — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
We call comeliness a mischance in the first respect, which belongs principally to the face. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The human face is a weak guarantee; yet it deserves some consideration. And if I had to whip the wicked, I would… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Take care that old age does not wrinkle your spirit even more than your face. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
A liar would be brave toward God, while he is a coward toward men; for a lie faces God, and shrinks from… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Is it not enough to make me come back to life out of spite, to have someone who spat in my face… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
If faces were not alike, we could not distinguish men from beasts; if they were not different, we could not tell one… — 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
