Ambition is not a vice of little people.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEAmbition is not a vice of little people.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEA man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEWe only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThere is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIt is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEI have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe world is but a perpetual see-saw.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEI prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEAge imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNENo pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEHe who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEWe are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEVirtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNENothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE