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Men do not know the natural infirmity of their mind: it does nothing but ferret and quest, and keeps incessantly whirling around, building up and becoming entangled in its own work, like silkworms, and is suffocated in it. A mouse in a pitch barrel... thinks it notices from a distance some sort of glimmer of imaginary light and truth; but while running toward it, it is crossed by so many difficulties and obstacles, and diverted by so many new quests, that it strays from the road, bewildered (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
Behold the hands, how they promise, conjure, appeal, menace, pray, supplicate, refuse, beckon, interrogate, admire, confess, cringe, instruct, command, mock and what not besides, with a variation and multiplication of variation which makes the tongue envious (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquility in our conduct. Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately. All other things, ruling, hoarding, building, are only little appendages and props, at most (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
Learning is a good medicine: but no medicine is powerful enough to preserve itself from taint and corruption independently of defects in the jar that it is kept in. One man sees clearly but does not see straight: consequently he sees what is good but fails to follow it; he sees knowledge and does not use it (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
Teach him a certain refinement in sorting out and selecting his arguments, with an affection for relevance and so for brevity. Above all let him be taught to throw down his arms and surrender to truth as soon as he perceives it, whether the truth is born at his rival’s doing or within himself from some change in his ideas (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
Now, since everything else is furnished with the exact amount of needle and thread required to maintain its being, it is in truth incredible that we alone should be brought into the world in a defective and indigent state, in a state such that we cannot maintain ourselves without external aid (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
For all parts of the body that we see fit to expose to the wind and air are found fit to endure it: face, feet, hands, legs, shoulders, head, according as custom invites us. For if there is a part of us that is tender and that seems as though it should fear the cold, it should be the stomach, where digestion takes place; our fathers left it uncovered, and our ladies, soft and delicate as they are, sometimes go half bare down to the navel (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
Traveling through the world produces a marvelous clarity in the judgment of men. We are all of us confined and enclosed within ourselves, and see no farther than the end of our nose. This great world is a mirror where we must see ourselves in order to know ourselves. There are so many different tempers, so many different points of view, judgments, opinions, laws and customs to teach us to judge wisely on our own, and to teach our judgment to recognize its imperfection and natural weakness (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
When I play with my cat, who knows whether I do not make her more sport than she makes me? When I play with my cat, who knows if I am not a pastime to her more than she is to me? When I play with my cat, who knows if I am not more of a pastime to her than she is to me? (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
If 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 Montaigne Quotes)
We are, I know not how, double in ourselves, so that what we believe we disbelieve, and cannot rid ourselves of what we condemn (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
It is the part of cowardice, not of courage, to go and crouch in a hole under a massive tomb, to avoid the blows of fortune (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
How many things served us yesterday for articles of faith, which today are fables for us? (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
There were never in the world two opinions alike, any more than two hairs or two grains. Their most universal quality is diversity (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
I will follow the good side right to the fire, but not into it if I can help it (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
I speak the truth, not my fill of it, but as much as I dare speak; and I dare to do so a little more as I grow old (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
It is more of a job to interpret the interpretations than to interpret the things, and there are more books about books than about any other subject: we do nothing but write glosses about each other (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
Each man calls barbarism what is not his own practice for indeed it seems we have no other test of truth and reason that the example and pattern of the opinions and customs of the country we live in (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
It is not without good reason said, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thought under the scrutiny of the laws, he would not deserve hanging ten times in his life (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
I want to be seen here in my simple, natural, and ordinary fashion, without straining or artifice; for it is myself that I portray (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
Truly man is a marvelously vain, diverse, and undulating object. It is hard to found any constant and uniform judgment on him (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
There is scarcely any less bother in the running of a family than in that of an entire state. And domestic business is no less importunate for being less important (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
Man is quite insane. He would not how to create a mite, and he creates gods by the dozens (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
There is no man so good that if he submitted all his actions and thoughts to the scrutiny of the laws, he would not deserve hanging ten times in his life (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
It could be said of me that I have here only made a nosegay of other men’s flowers, providing of my own only the string that ties them together (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)
No matter that we may mount on stilts, we still must walk on our own legs. And on the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom (Michel De Montaigne Quotes)