A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
All passions that suffer themselves to be relished and digested are but moderate. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Even in the midst of compassion we feel within I know not what tart sweet titillation of malicious pleasure in seeing others… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade; our life, like the harmony of the world, is composed of contrary things,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
There is no passion that so much transports men from their right judgments as anger. No one would demur upon punishing a… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“There is an old Greek saying that men are tormented not by things themselves but by what they think about them. If… — 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
