People of our time are so formed for agitation and ostentation that goodness, moderation, equability, constancy, and such quiet and obscure qualities… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The worthiest man to be known, and for a pattern to be presented to the world, he is the man of whom… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Necessity reconciles and brings men together; and this accidental connection afterward forms itself into laws. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Our truth of nowadays is not what is, but what others can be convinced of; just as we call "money" not only… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The wise man should withdraw his soul within, out of the crowd, and keep it in freedom and power to judge things… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
We are nothing but ceremony; ceremony carries us away, and we leave the substance of things; we hang on to the branches… — 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
