black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

My trade and art is to live.

Michel de Montaigne

Related Topics

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind – and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Contradiction Go Keep Mad Mankind Myself Some Work Write
Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Confidence Honesty Integrity Light One Other Own Testimony
Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Believe Firmly Know Least Nothing
In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Anything Book Education Good Hand True
He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Argument Command Establish Noise Reason Show Weak
It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

All Monstrous Same Say The Thing Will
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Bird Cage Desperate Get Inside Like Marriage One Out Outside Quality See
I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Flee From Know Not Search Well
There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Agree Bore Conversation Everybody One Thann
I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Greater Miracle Monster Myself never Seen World
Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Could Fool Fortune Lucky Made Make See Wise
There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Entire Family Government Manage Much Private State Vexation
There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Contagious Fear Passion So That
There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Desire Knowledge Natural No
The 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 MONTAIGNE

Avoid Both Condition Dare Nase Seem Them Ugly Worstm Action
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

Adequately Die Fully How Know Nature Spot Tell To What Worry

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes