“Plato forbids children wine till eighteen years of age, and to get drunk till forty; but, after forty, gives them leave to… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
How many worthy men have we known to survive their own reputation, who have seen and suffered the honor and glory most… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
In my youth I studied for ostentation; later, a little to gain wisdom; now, for recreation; never for gain. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
What harm cause not those huge draughts or pictures which wanton youth with chalk or coals draw in each passage, wall or… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Wine is the benevolent god, who gives back gaiety to men and restores youth to the old. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
A young man ought to cross his own rules, to awake his vigor, and to keep it from growing faint and rusty.… — 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
