In my opinion it is the happy living, and not, as Antisthenes said, the happy lying, in which human happiness consists. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Lucius Arruntius killed himself, he said, to escape both the future and the past. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
No wonder, said an Ancient, that chance has so much power over us, since it is by chance that we live. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I may indeed very well happen to contradict myself; but truth, as Demades said, I do not contradict. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
If I can, I shall keep my death from saying anything that my life has not already said. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Not because Socrates said so,... I look upon all men as my compatriots. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Diogenes was asked what wine he liked best; and he answered as I would have done when he said, "Somebody else's". — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The daughter-in-law of Pythagoras said that a woman who goes to bed with a man ought to lay aside her modesty with… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
If falsehood, like truth, had but one face, we would be more on equal terms. For we would consider the contrary of… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
He was doubtless an understanding Fellow that said, there was no happy Marriage but betwixt a blind Wife and a deaf Husband. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
That is why Bias jested with those who were going through the perils of a great storm with him and calling on… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
We are born to inquire after truth; it belongs to a greater power to possess it. It is not, as Democritus said,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Aesop, that great man, saw his master making water as he walked. "What!" he said, "Must we void ourselves as we run?"… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
In the examples that I here bring in of what I have [read], heard, done or said, I have refrained from daring… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Not because Socrates said so, but because it is in truth my own disposition - and perchance to some excess - I… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I have seen books made of things neither studied nor ever understood ... the author contenting himself for his own part, to… — 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
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