On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
What fear has once made me will, I am bound still to will when without fear. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Certainly, if he still has himself, a man of understanding has lost nothing. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I want death to find me planting my cabbages, but careless of death, and still more of my unfinished garden. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
We are never present with, but always beyond ourselves; fear, desire, hope, still push us on toward the future. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
It is in vain that we get upon stilts, for once on them, it is still with our legs that we must… — 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
Whatever is preached to us, and whatever we learn, we should still remember that it is man that gives, and man that… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I agree that we should work and prolong the functions of life as far as we can, and hope that Death may… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Petty vexations may at times be petty, but still they are vexations. The smallest and most inconsiderable annoyances are the most piercing.… — 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;… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The whole idea we have for their chastity is ridiculous. They would have to become numb and invisible to please us. I… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
He who remembers the evils he has undergone, and those that have threatened him, and the slight causes that have changed him… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
[I]n my country, when they would say a man has no sense, they say, such an one has no memory; and when… — 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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