He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Reason has so many forms that we do not know which to choose-Experiment has no fewer. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
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
I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I am disgusted with innovation, in whatever guise, and with reason, for I have seen very harmful effects of it. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
It is not without good reason, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Truth and reason are common to everyone, and are no more his who spake them first than his who speaks them after. — 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
The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
It costs an unreasonable woman no more to pass over one reason than another; they cherish themselves most where they are most… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear, and with good reason; that passion alone, in the trouble… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold. The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbor… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Seeing that the Senses cannot decide our dispute, being themselves full of uncertainty, we must have recourse to Reason; there is no… — 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
Nature has with a Motherly Tenderness observed this, that the Action she has enjoyned us for our Necessity should be also pleasant… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I cruelly hate cruelty, both by nature and reason, as the worst of all the vices. But then I am so soft… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is not without reason that we attribute facility in belief and conviction to simplicity and ignorance; for it seems to… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The good, supreme, divine poetry is above the rules and reason. Whoever discerns its beauty with a firm, sedate gaze does not… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The common notions that we find in credit around us and infused into our souls by our fathers' seed, these seem to… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
It was truly very good reason that we should be beholden to God only, and to the favour of his grace, for… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
We have more poets than judges and interpreters of poetry. It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
As for our pupils talk, let his virtue and his sense of right and wrong shine through it and have no guide… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Experience stands on its own dunghill in medicine, and reason yields it place. Medicine has always professed experience to be the touchstone… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Ceremony forbids us to express by words things that are lawful and natural, and we obey it; reason forbids us to do… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Is it not enough to make me come back to life out of spite, to have someone who spat in my face… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Vice leaves repentance in the soul, like an ulcer in the flesh, which is always scratching and lacerating itself; for reason effaces… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Each man calls barbarism whatever is not his own practice; for indeed it seems we have no other test of truth and… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Each person calls barbarism whatever is not his or her own practice.... We may call Cannibals barbarians, in respect to the rulesof… — 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
