If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than it was because he was he,… — 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
Friendship is a creature formed for a companionship not for a herd. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Friendship that possesses the whole soul, and there rules and sways with an absolute sovereignty, can admit of no rival. — 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
"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
Judgement holds in me a magisterial seat, at least it carefully tries to. It lets my feelings go their way, both hatred… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Oh, a friend! How true is that old saying, that the enjoyment of one is sweeter and more necessary than that of… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Getting married is very much like going to a restaurant with friends. You order what you want then when you see what… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
As great enmities spring from great friendships, and mortal distempers from vigorous health, so do the most surprising and the wildest frenzies… — 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… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“Would I fortify myself against the fear of death, it must be at the expense of Seneca: would I extract consolation for… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“I know not what quintessence of all this mixture, which, seizing my whole will, carried it to plunge and lose itself in… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
It takes strong ears indeed to hear ourselves judged frankly, and because there are few who can endure criticism without being stung… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“We need very strong ears to hear ourselves judged frankly, and because there are few who can endure frank criticism without being… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I never rebel so much against France as not to regard Paris with a friendly eye; she has had my heart since… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
We need very strong ears to hear ourselves judged frankly, and because there are few who can endure frank criticism without being… — Michel De Montaigne Copy Share Image
“And this puts me in mind of that rich gentleman of Rome, who had been solicitous, with great expense, to procure men… — 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
