Thus we should beware of clinging to vulgar opinions, and judge things by reason's way, not by popular say. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
In my opinion, the most fruitful and natural play of the mind is in conversation. I find it sweeter than any other… — 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
The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
All opinions in the world agree in this, that pleasure is our end, although they differ as to the means of attaining… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I am much afraid that we shall have very greatly hastened the decline and ruin of the New World by our contagion,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
All the opinions in the world point out that pleasure is our aim. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
When I express my opinions it is so as to reveal the measure of my sight not the measure of the thing. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Traveling through the world produces a marvelous clarity in the judgment of men. We are all of us confined and enclosed within… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
We should be similarly wary of accepting common opinions; we should judge them by the ways of reason not by popular vote. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
There never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains; the most universal quality is… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The diversity of physical arguments and opinions embraces all sorts of methods. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Of the opinions of philosophy I most gladly embrace those that are most solid, that is to say, most human and most… — 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
We have no participation in Being, because all human nature is ever midway between being born and dying, giving off only a… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The relish of good and evil depends in a great measure upon the opinion we have of them. — 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
Plenty and indigence depend upon the opinion every one has of them; and riches, like glory of health, have no more beauty… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Almost all the opinions we have are taken on authority and on credit. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I enter into discussion and argument with great freedom and ease, inasmuch as opinion finds me in a bad soil to penetrate… — 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
