The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEI study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
-
-
If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
In nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
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 -
The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
The prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk – they are all part of the curriculum.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
Ambition is not a vice of little people.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
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