In true friendship, in which I am expert, I give myself to my friend more than I draw him to me. I… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
It takes strong ears indeed to hear ourselves judged frankly, and because there are few who can endure criticism without being stung… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
All passions that suffer themselves to be relished and digested are but moderate. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
He who does not live in some degree for others, hardly lives for himself. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
One open way of speaking introduces another open way of speaking, and draws out discoveries, like wine and love. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Socrates, who was a perfect model in all great qualities, ... hit on a body and face so ugly and so incongruous… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Every place swarms with commentaries; of authors there is great scarcity. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
In love, 'tis no other than frantic desire for that which flies from us. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Saying is one thing, doing another. We must consider the sermon and the preacher distinctly and apart. — 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
Socrates thought and so do I that the wisest theory about the gods is no theory at all. — 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
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
A little of everything and nothing thoroughly, after the French fashion. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
This very Rome that we behold deserves our love ...: the only common and universal city. — 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
The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love. — 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
