Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNELet us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
-
-
I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
In nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE