Seems Quotes by Michel de Montaigne

Things seem greater by imagination than they are in effect.

— Michel de Montaigne

He that I am reading seems always to have the most force.

— Michel de Montaigne

Tortures are a dangerous invention, and seem to be a test of endurance rather than of truth.

— Michel de Montaigne

We imagine much more appropriately an artisan on his toilet seat or on his wife than a great president, venerable by his…

— Michel de Montaigne

We seem ambitious God's whole work to undo. ...With new diseases on ourselves we war, And with new physic, a worse engine…

— Michel de Montaigne

It is a stupid presumption to go about despising and condemning as false anything that seems to us improbable; this is a…

— Michel de Montaigne

Some men seem remarkable to the world in whom neither their wives nor their valets saw anything extraordinary. Few men have been…

— Michel de Montaigne

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

Their [the Skeptics'] way of speaking is: "I settle nothing. . . . I do not understand it. . . . Nothing…

— Michel de Montaigne

To behave rightly, we ourselves should never lay a hand on our servants as long as our anger lasts. Things will seem…

— Michel de Montaigne

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

Of all human and ancient opinions concerning religion, that seems to me the most likely and most excusable, that acknowledged God as…

— Michel de Montaigne

It is a thorny undertaking, and more so than it seems, to follow a movement so wandering as that of our mind,…

— Michel de Montaigne

For all parts of the body that we see fit to expose to the wind and air are found fit to endure…

— Michel de Montaigne

Those who make a practice of comparing human actions are never so perplexed as when they try to see them as a…

— Michel de Montaigne

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

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

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

Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we…

— Michel de Montaigne

While our pulse beats and we feel emotion, let us put off the business. Things will truly seem different to us when…

— Michel de Montaigne