I seek in the reading of books, only to please myself, by an honest diversion. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
My business is only to keep myself in motion, whilst motion pleases me; I only walk for the walk's sake. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Live as long as you please, you will strike nothing off the time you will have to spend dead. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“Fortune does us neither good nor hurt; she only presents us the matter and the seed, which our soul, more powerful than… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Off I go, rummaging about in books for sayings which please me. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Repentance is no other than a recanting of the will, and opposition to our fancies, which lead us which way they please. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
What am I to choose? "Choose what you please, as long as you choose." There you have a foolish answer, which seems… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
There is no greater enemy to those who would please than expectation. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The whole idea we have for their chastity is ridiculous. They would have to become numb and invisible to please us. I… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I enjoy books as misers enjoy treasures, because I know I can enjoy them whenever I please. — 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
