I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEI have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEStubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThere is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThere is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEI do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEHow many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIf ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNETis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEFame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEValor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEHow many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEI do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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 MONTAIGNEAny person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIf a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIt is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE