black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.

Michel de Montaigne

Related Topics

Conscience Labour Leave Memory Only Stuff Understanding Unfurnish Void

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Greater Miracle Monster Myself never Seen World
Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Bedfellow Fame never Tranquility
There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

More Some Defeat Triumphant Victory
Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Ashamed Let Not Speak Think
No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Communication Pleasure Savor Without
There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Entire Family Government Manage Much Private State Vexation
I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Borrow Care Much Myself Other Rich
It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Content Contractor Mind Sign Weariness
Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil’s alphabet – the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Alphabet Begin Both Corrupt Covetousness Die Last Nature Vice
Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Love Other Yourself
The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Build Ceaseless Death House Labour Life
A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Bent Look Matter Merely Oar Se Straight Them Thing Water
I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Dare Grow Little More Much Older Speak Truth Would
Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Around Dream Eyes Knew Life Love Real Soul
We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Christianity Country Native Perigold Same Title
The confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Another Confidence Confident Evidence Favor God Man Own Such Virtue Willing

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes