I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I have never known a greater miracle, or monster, than myself. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
There is no greater enemy to those who would please than expectation. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The pleasure we hold in esteem for the course of our lives ought to have a greater share of our time dedicated… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
We are born to inquire after truth; it belongs to a greater power to possess it. It is not, as Democritus said,… — 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
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
Laws gain their authority from actual possession and custom: it is perilous to go back to their origins; laws, like our rivers,… — 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
