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
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
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 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
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
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
Philosophical discussions habitually make men happy and joyful not frowning and sad. — 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
A man may by custom fortify himself against pain, shame, and suchlike accidents; but as to death, we can experience it but… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The general order of things that takes care of fleas and moles also takes care of men, if they will have the… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
My errors are by now natural and incorrigible; but the good that worthy men do the public by making themselves imitable, I… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Socrates ... brought human wisdom back down from heaven, where she was wasting her time, and restored her to man… It is… — 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
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
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
We endeavor more that men should speak of us, than how and what they speak, and it sufficeth us that our name… — 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
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
A liar would be brave toward God, while he is a coward toward men; for a lie faces God, and shrinks from… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
There is nothing on which men are commonly more intent than on making a way for their opinions. — 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
Wine is the benevolent god, who gives back gaiety to men and restores youth to the old. — 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
Nature has, herself, I fear, imprinted in man a kind of instinct to inhumanity. — 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
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
“If it be well weighed, to say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards… — 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
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
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
The recognition of virtue is not less valuable from the lips of the man who hates it, since truth forces him to… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Man is the sole animal whose nudities offend his own companions, and the only one who, in his natural actions, withdraws and… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
A man never speaks of himself without losing something. What he says in his disfavor is always beleived, but when he commends… — 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
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
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
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
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
The great and glorious masterpiece of men is to live to the point. All other things-to reign, to hoard, to build-are, at… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The plague of man is the opinion of knowledge. That is why ignorance is so recommended by our religion as a quality… — 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
