As far as fidelity is concerned, there is no animal in the world as treacherous as man. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Lying is a terrible vice, it testifies that one despises God, but fears men. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
It is setting a high value upon our opinions to roast men and women alive on account of them. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Oh these foolish men! They could not create so much as a worm, but they create gods by the dozens. — 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
Man is forming thousands of ridiculous relations between himself and God. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some men have lived long, and lived little; attend to… — 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 find no quality so easy for a man to counterfeit as devotion, though his life and manner are not conformable to… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Now there cannot be first principles for men, unless the Divinity has revealed them; all the rest--beginning, middle, and end--isnothing but dreams… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
God is favorable to those whom he makes to die by degrees; 'tis the only benefit of old age. The last death… — 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
To speak less of oneself than what one really is, is folly, not modesty; and to take that for current pay which… — 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
There is no passion that so much transports men from their right judgments as anger. No one would demur upon punishing a… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
One man may have some special knowledge at first-hand about the character of a river or a spring, who otherwise knows only… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
We commend a horse for his strength, and sureness of foot, and not for his rich caparisons; a greyhound for his share… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Men do not know the natural infirmity of their mind: it does nothing but ferret and quest, and keeps incessantly whirling around,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The worthiest man to be known, and for a pattern to be presented to the world, he is the man of whom… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
My trade and my art is living. He who forbids me to speak about it according to my sense, experience, and practice,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
He who remembers the evils he has undergone, and those that have threatened him, and the slight causes that have changed him… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
In his commerce with men I mean him to include- and that principally- those who live only in the memory of books.… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Man in sooth is a marvellous, vain, fickle, and unstable subject. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I must use these great men's virtues as a cloak for my weakness. — 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
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
