Necessity reconciles and brings men together; and this accidental connection afterward forms itself into laws. — 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
..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
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
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
Lying is a terrible vice, it testifies that one despises God, but fears men. — 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
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
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
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
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
Each man calls barbarism whatever is not his own practice; for indeed it seems we have no other test of truth and… — 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
'As a man who knows how to make his education into a rule of life not a means of showing off; who… — 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
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
Business in a certain sort of men is a mark of understanding, and they are honored for it. Their souls seek repose… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Learning is a good medicine: but no medicine is powerful enough to preserve itself from taint and corruption independently of defects in… — 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
Of all human and ancient opinions concerning religion, that seems to me the most likely and most excusable, that acknowledged God as… — 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
We cannot be held to what is beyond our strength and means; for at times the accomplishment and execution may not be… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
As far as fidelity is concerned, there is no animal in the world as treacherous as man. — 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
I consider myself an average man, except in the fact that I consider myself an average man. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss; his accusations of himself are always believed; his praises… — 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
If faces were not alike, we could not distinguish men from beasts; if they were not different, we could not tell one… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
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
No man divulges his revenue, or at least which way it comes in: but every one publishes his acquisitions. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Truly man is a marvelously vain, diverse, and undulating object. It is hard to found any constant and uniform judgment on him. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Men ... are not agreed about any one thing, not even that heaven is over our heads. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Men are tormented by the opinions they have of things, and not the things themselves. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
A man must learn to endure patiently what he cannot avoid conveniently. — 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
No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
A man should not so much respect what he eats, as with whom he eats. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The truth of these days is not that which really is, but what every man persuades another man to believe. — 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
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
Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share
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
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
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
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
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
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
There are as many and innumerable degrees of wit, as there are cubits between this and heaven. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share
Lucius Arruntius killed himself, he said, to escape both the future and the past. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share
I have a vocabulary all my own. I pass the time when itis wet and disagreeable. Whenit is fine I do not wish to… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share
