Giving Quotes by Michel de Montaigne

Give me the provisions and whole apparatus of a kitchen, and I would starve.

— Michel de Montaigne

Everyone gives the title of barbarism to everything that is not in use in his own country.

— Michel de Montaigne

If by being overstudious, we impair our health and spoil our good humor, let us give it up.

— Michel de Montaigne

Intoxication is calculated to put heart into the elderly and give them delight in dancing.

— Michel de Montaigne

I give my opinion not as being good, but as being my own.

— Michel de Montaigne

Wine is the benevolent god, who gives back gaiety to men and restores youth to the old.

— Michel de Montaigne

I seek in books only to give myself pleasure by honest amusement; or if I study, I seek only the learning that…

— Michel de Montaigne

Those who give the first shock to a state are the first overwhelmed in its ruin; the fruits of public commotion are…

— Michel de Montaigne

Lay a beam between these two towers of such width as we need to walk on: there is no philosophical wisdom of…

— Michel de Montaigne

Examples teach us that in military affairs, and all others of a like nature, study is apt to enervate and relax the…

— Michel de Montaigne

Princes give mee sufficiently, if they take nothing from me, and doe me much good, if they doe me no hurt: it…

— Michel de Montaigne

Most men are rich in borrowed sufficiency: a man may very well say a good thing, give a good answer, cite a…

— Michel de Montaigne

I admire the assurance and confidence everyone has in himself, whereas there is hardly anything I am sure I know or that…

— Michel de Montaigne

Satiety comes of too frequent repetition and he who will not give himself leisure to be thirsty can never find the true…

— Michel de Montaigne

It needs good management to enjoy life. I enjoy it twice as much as others, for the measure of enjoyment depends on…

— Michel de Montaigne

It was truly very good reason that we should be beholden to God only, and to the favour of his grace, for…

— Michel de Montaigne

Learning is not to be tacked to the mind, but we must fuse and blend them together, not merely giving the mind…

— Michel de Montaigne

One man may have some special knowledge at first-hand about the character of a river or a spring, who otherwise knows only…

— Michel de Montaigne

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

We have no participation in Being, because all human nature is ever midway between being born and dying, giving off only a…

— Michel de Montaigne

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

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

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

We are neither obstinately nor wilfully to oppose evils, nor truckle under them for want of courage, but that we are naturally…

— Michel de Montaigne

In truth, knowledge is a great and very useful quality; those who despise it give evidence enough of their stupidity. Yet I…

— Michel de Montaigne

My opinion is that we must lend ourselves to others and give ourselves only to ourselves. If my will happened to be…

— Michel de Montaigne

Princes give me sufficiently if they take nothing from me, and do me much good if they do me no hurt; it…

— Michel de Montaigne

Whatever is preached to us, and whatever we learn, we should still remember that it is man that gives, and man that…

— Michel de Montaigne

Every one is well or ill at ease, according as he finds himself! not he whom the world believes, but he who…

— Michel de Montaigne

Books are pleasant, but if by being over-studious we impair our health and spoil our good humour, two of the best things…

— Michel de Montaigne