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 put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEMy trade and art is to live.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEA straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThere is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIt is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEFor truly it is to be noted, that children’s plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEMy life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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 MONTAIGNEI have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNENo pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNETis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEHe who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThose who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE