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
Lucius Arruntius killed himself, he said, to escape both the future and the past. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I have a vocabulary all my own. I pass the time when itis wet and disagreeable. Whenit is fine I do not… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“I have not seen anywhere in the world a more obvious malformed person and miracle than myself. Through use and time we… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Custom is a violent and treacherous school mistress. She, by little and lithe, slyly and unperceived, slips in the foot of her… — 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
Any time and any place can be used to study: his room, a garden, is table, his bed; when alone or in… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
To how many blockheads of my time has a cold and taciturn demeanor procured the credit of prudence and capacity! — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The utility of living consists not in the length of days, but in the use of time; a man may have lived… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
For truth itself does not have the privilege to be employed at any time and in every way; its use, noble as… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
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
“In our time the most warlike nations are the most rude and ignorant.” — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I would like to suggest that our minds are swamped by too much study and by too much matter just as plants… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
After mature deliberation of counsel, the good Queen to establish a rule and immutable example unto all posterity, for the moderation and… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“Let us never allow ourselves to be carried away so completely by pleasure that we fail to recall from time to time… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Live as long as you please, you will strike nothing off the time you will have to spend dead. — 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
For truth itself has not the privilege to be spoken at all times and in all sorts. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“Every one of us is a hodge-podge, so shapeless and diverse in structure that each piece, each moment, plays its own game.… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
If you want it to be so, history can be a waste of time; it can also be, if you want it… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Our thoughts are always elsewhere; we are stayed and supported by the hope for a better life, or by the hope that… — 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
