It is not my deeds that I write down, it is myself, my essence. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“Mon métier et mon art c’est vivre. [My craft and my skill is living.]” — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The only good histories are those written by those who had command in the events they describe. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“To an atheist all writings tend to atheism: he corrupts the most innocent matter with his own venom.” — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“Livet består av en del galskap, og en del visdom; den som bare skriver ærbødig og konvensjonelt, utelater mer enn halvparten.” — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
And truly Philosophy is but sophisticated poetry. Whence do those ancient writers derive all their authority but from the poets? — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The only good histories are those that have been written by the persons themselves who commanded in the affairs whereof they write — Michel De Montaigne Copy Share Image
I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
When a man's talk is commonplace and his writings uncommon, it means that his talent lies in the place from which he… — Michel De Montaigne Copy Share Image
An able reader often discovers in other people's writings perfections beyond those that the author put in or perceived, and lends them… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“Handling and use by able minds give value to a language, not so much by innovating as by filling it out with… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I, who am king of the matter I treat, and who owe an accounting for it to no one, do not for… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Seneca's virtue shows forth so live and vigorous in his writings, and the defense is so clear there against some of these… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Great authors, when they write about causes, adduce not only those they think are true but also those they do not believe… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Whatever I may be, I want to be elsewhere than on paper. My art and my industry have been employed in making… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
One man may have some special knowledge at first-hand about the character of a river or a spring, who otherwise knows only… — 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
The vulgar and common esteem is seldom happy in hitting right; and I am much mistaken if, amongst the writings of my… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“how I would hate the reputation of being clever at writing but stupid and useless at everything else! I would rather be… — 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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