The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere is to be nowhere.es” — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
There is no so wretched and coarse a soul wherein some particular faculty is not seen to shine. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Nor is it enough to toughen up his soul; you must also toughen up his muscles. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The virtue of the soul does not consist in flying high, but in walking orderly. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
To make judgements about great and lofty things, a soul of the same stature is needed; otherwise we ascribe to them that… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The most regular and most perfect soul in the world has but too much to do to keep itself upright from being… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Greatness of soul consists not so much in soaring high and in pressing forward, as in knowing how to adapt and limit… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“Philosophy believes she has not made a bad use of her resources when she has bestowed on Reason sovereign mastery over our… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“Glory and curiosity are the scourges of the soul; the last prompts us to thrust our noses into everything, the other forbids… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
When I dance, I dance; when I sleep, I sleep; yes, and when I walk alone in a beautiful orchard, if my… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“The soul in which philosophy dwells should by its health make even the body healthy. It should make its tranquillity and gladness… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“Our understanding is conducted solely by means of the word: anyone who falsifies it betrays public society. It is the only tool… — 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
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
