How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEI write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind – and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
-
-
Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
We can be knowledgable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
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 -
It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE