How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEHow many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEDeath, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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 MONTAIGNEAge imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEI have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEOnce conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEHe who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEConfidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEI have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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 MONTAIGNEThe beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE