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Michel De Montaigne Quotes

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It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason  (Michel De Montaigne Quotes) Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream  (Michel De Montaigne Quotes) Make 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 Montaigne Quotes) Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and apply myself to them if they will not apply themselves to me  (Michel De Montaigne Quotes) Once 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 Montaigne Quotes) The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere  (Michel De Montaigne Quotes) The 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 Montaigne Quotes) ‘Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures  (Michel De Montaigne Quotes) Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie  (Michel De Montaigne Quotes) When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her  (Michel De Montaigne Quotes) Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly  (Michel De Montaigne Quotes) Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous  (Michel De Montaigne Quotes) Live as long as you please, you will strike nothing off the time you will have to spend dead  (Michel De Montaigne Quotes) The sage says that all that is under heaven incurs the same law and the same fate  (Michel De Montaigne Quotes) As far as fidelity is concerned, there is no animal in the world as treacherous as man  (Michel De Montaigne Quotes) The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold. The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbor creates a war betwixt princes  (Michel De Montaigne Quotes) For truth itself does not have the privilege to be employed at any time and in every way; its use, noble as it is, has its circumscriptions and limits  (Michel De Montaigne Quotes) Let us a little permit nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we  (Michel De Montaigne Quotes) In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection; otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books  (Michel De Montaigne Quotes) If falsehood, like truth, had but one face, we would be more on equal terms. For we would consider the contrary of what the liar said to be certain. But the opposite of truth has a hundred thousand faces and an infinite field  (Michel De Montaigne Quotes) Meditation is a rich and powerful method of study for anyone who knows how to examine his mind  (Michel De Montaigne Quotes) The oldest and best known evil was ever more supportable than one that was new and untried  (Michel De Montaigne Quotes) Men... are not agreed about any one thing, not even that heaven is over our heads  (Michel De Montaigne Quotes) How often, being moved under a false cause, if the person offending makes a good defense and presents us with a just excuse, are we angry against truth and innocence itself?  (Michel De Montaigne Quotes) The births of all things are weak and tender and therefore we should have our eyes intent on beginnings  (Michel De Montaigne Quotes) We find ourselves more taken with the running up and down, the games, and puerile simplicities of our children, than we do, afterward, with their most complete actions; as if we had loved them for our sport, like monkeys, and not as men  (Michel De Montaigne Quotes) An ancient father says that a dog we know is better company than a man whose language we do not understand  (Michel De Montaigne Quotes) There is nothing so extreme that is not allowed by the custom of some nation or other  (Michel De Montaigne Quotes) The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man; some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice, cruelty, according to their power  (Michel De Montaigne Quotes) The knowledge of courtesy and good manners is a very necessary study. It is like grace and beauty, that which begets liking and an inclination to love one another at the first sight  (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
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