“Human understanding is marvellously enlightened by daily conversation with men, for we are, otherwise, compressed and heaped up in ourselves, and have… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
No two men ever judged alike of the same thing, and it is impossible to find two opinions exactly similar, not only… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Whatever is preached to us, and whatever we learn, we should still remember that it is man that gives, and man that… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
A man should ever, as much as in him lieth, be ready booted to take his journey, and above all things look… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
We find ourselves more taken with the running up and down, the games, and puerile simplicities of our children, than we do,… — 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
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
The utility of living consists not in the length of days, but in the use of time; a man may have lived… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Presumption is our natural and original malady. The most vulnerable and frail of all creatures is man, and at the same time… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
A man should keep for himself a little back shop, all his own, quite unadulterated, in which he establishes his true freedom… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Not because Socrates said so, but because it is in truth my own disposition - and perchance to some excess - I… — 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
The daughter-in-law of Pythagoras said that a woman who goes to bed with a man ought to lay aside her modesty with… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
No man dies before his hour. The time you leave behind was no more yours, than that which was before your birth,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
There is a huge gulf between the man who follows the conventions and laws of his country and the man who sets… — 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
