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;… — 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… — 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
Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm or a flea and yet will create Gods by the dozen! — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Lying is a disgraceful vice, and one that Plutarch paints in most disgraceful colors, when he says that it is "affording testimony… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Examples teach us that in military affairs, and all others of a like nature, study is apt to enervate and relax the… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
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
After they had accustomed themselves at Rome to the spectacles of the slaughter of animals, they proceeded to those of the slaughter… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Age imprints more wrinkles a in the mind, than it does in the face, and souls are never, or very rarely seen,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Aesop, that great man, saw his master making water as he walked. "What!" he said, "Must we void ourselves as we run?"… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The most unhappy and frail creatures are men and yet they are the proudest. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The curiosity of knowing things has been given to man for a scourge. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
It is much more easy to accuse the one sex than to excuse the other. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The wise man lives as long as he ought, not so long as he can. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Every man may speak truly, but to speak methodically, prudently, and fully is a talent that few men have. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The utility of living consists not in the length of days, but in the use of time; a man may have lived… — 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
Travelling through the world produces a marvellous clarity in the judgment of men. We are all of us confined and enclosed within… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I say that male and female are cast in the same mold; except for education and habits, the difference is not great. — 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
