I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEI have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIf a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEA wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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 MONTAIGNENothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIf there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNENo wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNENot being able to govern events, I govern myself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEI prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEShe will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIt is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEDeath, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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 establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEMake your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThere is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE