T is one and the same Nature that rolls on her course, and whoever has sufficiently considered the present state of things… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
And one might therefore say of me that in this book I have only made up a bunch of other people's flowers,… — 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
We every day and every hour say things of another that we might more properly say of ourselves, could we but apply… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
When I was young, beautiful ancient statues were castrated, so that the eye might not be corrupted.... Nothing was gained, unless horses… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Might I have had my own will, I would not have married Wisdom herself, if she would have had me. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
If these Essays were worthy of being judged, it might fall out, in my opinion, that they would not find much favour,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
As by some might be saide of me: that here I have but gathered a nosegay of strange floures, and have put… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Whenever a new finding is reported to the world people say - It is probably not true. Later on, when the reliability… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
God might grant us riches, honours, life, and even health, to our own hurt; for every thing that is pleasing to us… — 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
