If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
There is nothing on which men are commonly more intent than on making a way for their opinions. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Let us a little permit nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
To make a crooked stick straight, we bend it the contrary way. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Whether the events in our life are good or bad, greatly depends on the way we perceive them. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
No man divulges his revenue, or at least which way it comes in: but every one publishes his acquisitions. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
We should be similarly wary of accepting common opinions; we should judge them by the ways of reason not by popular vote. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
We took advantage of [the Indians'] ignorance and inexperience to incline them the more easily toward treachery, lewdness, avarice, and every sort… — 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
Their [the Skeptics'] way of speaking is: "I settle nothing. . . . I do not understand it. . . . Nothing… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
There are few things on which we can pass a sincere judgement, because there are few things in which we have not,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Judgement holds in me a magisterial seat, at least it carefully tries to. It lets my feelings go their way, both hatred… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
All I say is by way of discourse, and nothing by way of advice. I should not speak so boldly if it… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Repentance is no other than a recanting of the will, and opposition to our fancies, which lead us which way they please. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Old age is a lease nature only signs as a particular favor, and it may be, to one, only in the space… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The shortest way to arrive at glory should be to do that for conscience which we do for glory. And the virtue… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I go out of my way, but rather by license than carelessness.... It is the inattentive reader who loses my subject, not… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
To begin depriving death of its greatest advantage over us, let us adopt a way clean contrary to that common one; let… — 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
We are neither obstinately nor wilfully to oppose evils, nor truckle under them for want of courage, but that we are naturally… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
A tutor should not be continually thundering instruction into the ears of his pupil, as if he were pouring it through a… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Thus we should beware of clinging to vulgar opinions, and judge things by reason's way, not by popular say. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The shortest way to arrive at glory would be to do that for conscience which we do for glory. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
One open way of speaking introduces another open way of speaking, and draws out discoveries, like wine and love. — 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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