Intoxication is calculated to put heart into the elderly and give them delight in dancing. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Wine is the benevolent god, who gives back gaiety to men and restores youth to the old. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
If by being overstudious, we impair our health and spoil our good humor, let us give it up. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Give me the provisions and whole apparatus of a kitchen, and I would starve. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Everyone gives the title of barbarism to everything that is not in use in his own country. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 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
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 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
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
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 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
