The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I will follow the right side even to the fire, but excluding the fire if I can. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge ourselves with railing against it. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Tis faith alone that vividly and certainly comprehends the deep mysteries of our religion. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Rash and incessant scolding runs into custom and renders itself despised. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The honor we receive from those that fear us, is not honor; those respects are paid to royalty and not to me. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Every one's true worship was that which he found in use in the place where he chanced to be. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
A man must always study, but he must not always go to school: what a contemptible thing is an old abecedarian! — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Is there a polity better ordered, the offices better distributed, and more inviolably observed and maintained, than that of bees? — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade; our life, like the harmony of the world, is composed of contrary things,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
A learned man is not learned in all things; but a sufficient man is sufficient throughout, even to ignorance itself. — 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
"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
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
