Health is a precious thing, and the only one, in truth, meriting that a man should lay out not only his time,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
It is for little souls, that truckle under the weight of affairs, not to know how clearly to disengage themselves, and not… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
To behave rightly, we ourselves should never lay a hand on our servants as long as our anger lasts. Things will seem… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
But the touch or company of any man whatsoever stirreth up their heat, which in their solitude was hushed and quiet, and… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Lay a beam between these two towers of such width as we need to walk on: there is no philosophical wisdom of… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The perpetual work of your life is but to lay the foundation of death. — 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
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
