Laws are maintained in credit, not because they are essentially just, but because they are laws. It is the mystical foundation of… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
There never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains; the most universal quality is… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Since I would rather make of him an able man than a learned man, I would also urge that care be taken… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
It is an injustice that an old, broken, half-dead father should enjoy alone, in a corner of his hearth, possessions that would… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I consider it equal injustice to set our heart against natural pleasures and to set our heart too much on them. We… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Laws are often made by fools, and even more often by men who fail in equity because they hate equality: but always… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection; otherwise you only make so many asses laden… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
There is a certain consideration, and a general duty of humanity, that binds us not only to the animals, which have life… — 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;… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Marriage has, for its share, usefulness, justice, honour, and constancy; a stale but more durable pleasure. Love is grounded on pleasure alone,… — 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
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
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