How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEHow many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIf a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIf you don’t know how to die, don’t worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEAn untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIf you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEEven from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEHe who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEDeath, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEAge imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe 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 MONTAIGNEWe can be knowledgable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEOf all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEAmbition is not a vice of little people.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNERejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE