The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure no slight pleasure. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I may indeed very well happen to contradict myself; but truth, as Demades said, I do not contradict. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure; neither the greatest captains nor the greatest… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Since I would rather make of him an able man than a learned man, I would also urge that care be taken… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Every one is well or ill at ease, according as he finds himself! not he whom the world believes, but he who… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Who is only good that others may know it, and that he may be the better esteemed when 'tis known, who will… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Tis well for old age that it is always accompanied with want of perception, ignorance, and a facility of being deceived. For… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
It has never occurred to me to wish for empire or royalty, nor for the eminence of those high and commanding fortunes.… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
There is no virtue which does not rejoice a well-descended nature; there is a kind of I know not what congratulation in… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Most men are rich in borrowed sufficiency: a man may very well say a good thing, give a good answer, cite a… — 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
Human wisdom makes as ill use of her talent when she exercises it in rescinding from the number and sweetness of those… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
We have more poets than judges and interpreters of poetry. It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
But as Nature is the best guide, teaching must be the development of natural inclinations, for which purpose the teacher must watch… — 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… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
No profession or occupation is more pleasing than the military; a profession or exercise both noble in execution (for the strongest, most… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Learning is not to be tacked to the mind, but we must fuse and blend them together, not merely giving the mind… — 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
There is nothing so noble and so right as to play our human life well and fitly, nor anything so difficult to… — 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
I seek in books only to give myself pleasure by honest amusement; or if I study, I seek only the learning that… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Persons of mean understandings, not so inquisitive, nor so well instructed, are made good Christians, and by reverence and obedience, implicity believe,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I do not correct my first imaginings by my second--well, yes, perhaps a word or so, but only to vary, not to… — 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
Whenever a new finding is reported to the world people say - It is probably not true. Later on, when the reliability… — 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
