The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThere is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEI 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 MONTAIGNEIf 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 MONTAIGNEThe thing I fear most is fear.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEWit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEConfidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEMarriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEI study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEMake your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThere is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEOf all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEI put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThere is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEMarriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThere is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE