All permanent decisions are made in a temporary state of mind. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
What fear has once made me will, I am bound still to will when without fear. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Our religion is made to eradicate vices, instead it encourages them, covers them, and nurtures them. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Long life, and short, are by death made all one; for there is no long, nor short, to things that are no… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that tied… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
God defend me from being an honest man according to the description which every day I see made by each man to… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Fortune, to show us her power in all things, and to abate our presumption, seeing she could not make fools wise, has… — 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
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 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
Persons of mean understandings, not so inquisitive, nor so well instructed, are made good Christians, and by reverence and obedience, implicity believe,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
And one might therefore say of me that in this book I have only made up a bunch of other people's flowers,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is not without reason that we attribute facility in belief and conviction to simplicity and ignorance; for it seems to… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
But as Nature is the best guide, teaching must be the development of natural inclinations, for which purpose the teacher must watch… — 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
Painting myself for others, I have painted my inward self with colors clearer than my original ones. I have no more made… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I was not long since in a company where I was not who of my fraternity brought news of a kind of… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I have seen books made of things neither studied nor ever understood ... the author contenting himself for his own part, to… — 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,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Nature has made us a present of a broad capacity for entertaining ourselves apart, and often calls us to do so, to… — 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
