When I quote others I do so in order to express my own ideas more clearly. — 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
It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The oldest and best known evil was ever more supportable than one that was new and untried. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
We find our energies are actually cramped when we are overanxious to succeed. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Men ... are not agreed about any one thing, not even that heaven is over our heads. — 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
Nobody is exempt from saying stupid things, the harm is to do it presumptuously. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself. — 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
Glory and repose are things that cannot possibly inhabit in one and the same place. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
When we see a man with bad shoes, we say it is no wonder, if he is a shoemaker. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one. — 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
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
