It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from Custom. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The sage says that all that is under heaven incurs the same law and the same fate. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The laws of conscience, though we ascribe them to nature, actually come from custom. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
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 is a huge gulf between the man who follows the conventions and laws of his country and the man who sets… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The daughter-in-law of Pythagoras said that a woman who goes to bed with a man ought to lay aside her modesty with… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
It is the rule of rules, and the general law of all laws, that every person should observe those of the place… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve… — 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
Necessity reconciles and brings men together; and this accidental connection afterward forms itself into laws. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thoughts under the scrutiny of the laws, he… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I love those historians that are either very simple or most excellent. Such as are between both (which is the most common… — 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
The first law that ever God gave to man was a law of pure obedience; it was a commandment naked and simple,… — 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
Nature has with a Motherly Tenderness observed this, that the Action she has enjoyned us for our Necessity should be also pleasant… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
It is only reasonable to allow the administration of affairs to mothers before their children reach the age prescribed by law at… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Traveling through the world produces a marvelous clarity in the judgment of men. We are all of us confined and enclosed within… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
What we are told of the inhabitants of Brazil, that they never die but of old age, is attributed to the tranquility… — 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
I don't break the law* made for crooks, when I take away my own property - thus I am not obliged to… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
It is indeed the boundary of life, beyond which we are not to pass; which the law of nature has pitched for… — 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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