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Famous Michel de Montaigne Quotes
“There is nothing on which men are commonly more intent than on making a way for their opinions.”
“It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.”
“My appetite comes to me while eating.”
“I walk firmer and more secure uphill than down.”
“Sometimes it is a good choice not to choose at all.”
“I do not understand; I pause; I examine.”
“To philosophize is to doubt.”
“I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice.”
“It is an absolute perfection... to get the very most out of one's individuality.”
“We are born to inquire into truth; it belongs to a greater to possess it”
“I must use these great men's virtues as a cloak for my weakness.”
“The man who thinks he knows does not yet know what knowing is”
“The most evident token and apparent sign of true wisdom is a constant and unconstrained rejoicing.”
“The most universal quality is diversity.”
“He who does not live in some degree for others, hardly lives for himself.”
“This notion [skepticism] is more clearly understood by asking "What do I know?"”
“Whether the events in our life are good or bad, greatly depends on the way we perceive them.”
“Virtue can have naught to do with ease. . . . It craves a steep and thorny path.”
“I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.”
“Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest”
“A man must learn to endure patiently what he cannot avoid conveniently.”
“The relish of good and evil depends in a great measure upon the opinion we have of them.”