There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThere is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEI have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNENot being able to govern events, I govern myself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEOnce conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThere is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNENothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk – they are all part of the curriculum.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEAmbition is not a vice of little people.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEI care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEI do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEEvery one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEHe who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEI quote others only in order the better to express myself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE