The height and value of true virtue consists in the facility, utility, and pleasure of its exercise; so far from difficulty, that… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and nearest at hand. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Other passions have objects to flatter them, and seem to content and satisfy them for a while; there is power in ambition,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
There is power in ambition, pleasure in luxury...but envy can gain nothing but vexation. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
We have the pleasures suitable to our lot; let us not usurp those of greatness. Ours are more natural and all the… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Satiety comes of too frequent repetition and he who will not give himself leisure to be thirsty can never find the true… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I consider it equal injustice to set our heart against natural pleasures and to set our heart too much on them. We… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I seek in books only to give myself pleasure by honest amusement; or if I study, I seek only the learning that… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Marriage has, for its share, usefulness, justice, honour, and constancy; a stale but more durable pleasure. Love is grounded on pleasure alone,… — 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
All the opinions in the world point out that pleasure is our aim. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“I find I am much prouder of the victory I obtain over myself, when, in the very ardor of dispute, I make… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure; neither the greatest captains nor the greatest… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Human wisdom makes as ill use of her talent when she exercises it in rescinding from the number and sweetness of those… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Even in the midst of compassion we feel within I know not what tart sweet titillation of malicious pleasure in seeing others… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
When Socrates, after being relieved of his irons, felt the relish of the itching that their weight had caused in his legs,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
There is indeed a certain sense of gratification when we do a good deed that gives us inward satisfaction, and a generous… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The pleasure we hold in esteem for the course of our lives ought to have a greater share of our time dedicated… — 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
Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope, that in a mortal subject, and in a moment, makes nothing of usurping infinity, immensity,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure no slight pleasure. — 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
