How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNENothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
-
-
Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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 -
Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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 -
If 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 MONTAIGNE