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Michel de Montaigne

Birthday: February 28, 1533
Deathday: September 13, 1592
Category: French Philosopher
Type: Philosopher
National: French

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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and...

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what...

A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters...

A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself....

A wise man sees as much as he ought, not...

Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does...

Ambition is not a vice of little people....

An unattempted lady could not vaunt of her chastity....

An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity....

Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor...

Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's...

Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of...

Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the...

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations....

Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports...

Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition....

Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no...

Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows....

Few men have been admired of their familiars....

For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays...

Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has...

He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows...

He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he...

How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the...

How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith...

I care not so much what I am to others...

I do myself a greater injury in lying than I...

I do not speak the minds of others except to...

I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in...

I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility,...

I know well what I am fleeing from but not...

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not...

I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those...

I quote others only in order the better to express...

I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does...

I speak the truth not so much as I would,...

I study myself more than any other subject. That is...

I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions...

If a man should importune me to give a reason...

If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved...

If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of...

If there is such a thing as a good marriage,...

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature...

If you press me to say why I loved him,...

Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can...

In nine lifetimes, you'll never know as much about your...

In true education, anything that comes to our hand is...

It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but...

It is a sign of contraction of the mind when...

It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know...

It is good to rub and polish our brain against...

It is not death, it is dying that alarms me....

It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That...

It should be noted that children at play are not...

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself....

Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame...

Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands...

Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are...

Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can...

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside...

Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance....

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of...

My trade and art is to live....

No pleasure has any savor for me without communication....

No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no...

Not being able to govern events, I govern myself....

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as...

Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know....

Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise...

Once conform, once do what others do because they do...

One may be humble out of pride....

Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible....

Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is...

Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best...

The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and...

The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the...

The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence...

The entire lower world was created in the likeness of...

The finest souls are those that have the most variety...

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness....

The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie,...

The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is...

The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is...

The thing I fear most is fear....

The value of life lies not in the length of...

The way of the world is to make laws, but...

The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow...

The world is but a perpetual see-saw....

The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so...

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories....

There is a sort of gratification in doing good which...

There is little less trouble in governing a private family...

There is no conversation more boring than the one where...

There is no desire more natural than the desire for...

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear....

There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is...

There is not much less vexation in the government of...

There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write...

Those who have compared our life to a dream were...

'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge...

Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory,...

Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of...

Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a...

We are Christians by the same title as we are...

We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we...

We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the...

When I play with my cat, who knows whether she...

Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if...