I listen with attention to the judgement of all men; but so far as I can remember, I have followed none but… — 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
And I loathe people who find it harder to put up with a gown askew than with a soul askew and who… — 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
Intelligence is required to be able to know that a man knows not. — 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
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
L'homme est bien insensé. Il ne saurait forger un ciron, et forge des Dieux à douzaines. Man is certainly crazy. He could… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I have gathered a posy of other mens flowers and only the thread that bonds them is my own. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Man is quite insane. He wouldn?t know how to create a maggot, and he creates Gods by the dozen. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Women are not altogether in the wrong when they refuse the rules of life prescribed to the World, for men only have… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
There is nothing which so poisons princes as flattery, nor anything whereby wicked men more easily obtain credit and favor with them. — 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
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
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
There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
A man must not always tell all, for that be folly; but what a man says should be what he thinks. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Some men seem remarkable to the world in whom neither their wives nor their valets saw anything extraordinary. Few men have been… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Who is only good that others may know it, and that he may be the better esteemed when 'tis known, who will… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
For there is no air that men so greedily draw in, that diffuses itself so soon, and that penetrates so deep as… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve… — 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
