[I]n my country, when they would say a man has no sense, they say, such an one has no memory; and when… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Men throw themselves on foreign assistances to spare their own, which, after all, are the only certain and sufficient ones. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
It is not a mind, it is not a body that we educate, but it is a man, and we must not… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
We are more solicitous that men speak of us, than how they speak. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
A man must keep a little back shop where he can be himself without reserve. In solitude alone can he know true… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
An honest man is not accountable for the vice and folly of his trade, and therefore ought not to refuse the exercise… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
After a tongue has once got the knack of lying, it is not to be imagined how impossible almost it is to… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
How many valiant men we have seen to survive their own reputation! — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
..a man may live long, yet live very little. Satisfaction in life depends not on the number of your years, but on… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The first distinction among men, and the first consideration that gave one precedence over another, was doubtless the advantage of beauty. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
A young man ought to cross his own rules, to awake his vigor, and to keep it from growing faint and rusty.… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I look upon the too good opinion that man has of himself, as the nursing mother of all false opinions, both public… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
We have more poets than judges and interpreters of poetry. It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
We do not know where death awaits us: so let us wait for it everywhere. To practice death is to practice freedom.… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
A man should think less of what he eats and more with whom he eats because no food is so satisfying as… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The wise man should withdraw his soul within, out of the crowd, and keep it in freedom and power to judge things… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
We are nearer neighbors to ourselves than the whiteness of snow or the weight of stones are to us: if man does… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Man will rise, if God by exception lends him a hand; he will rise by abandoning and renouncing his own means, and… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
There is a plague on Man, the opinion that he knows something. — 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
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