The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEMarriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEAn untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEA wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIf you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEMy life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThere are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEConfidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThere is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEA good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEA wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEOf all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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 MONTAIGNEFew men have been admired of their familiars.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE