Source: The Essays of Michel de Montaigne
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“I consider myself an average man, except in the fact that I consider myself an average man.”
“To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us.”
Source: Selected essays of Montaigne: in the translation of John Florio
“It is much more easy to accuse the one sex than to excuse the other.”
Source: Shakespeare's Montaigne: The Florio Translation of the Essays, A Selection
“The most unhappy and frail creatures are men and yet they are the proudest.”
“Once you have decided to keep a certain pile, it is no longer yours; for you can't spend it.”
Source: The Autobiography of Michel de Montaigne: Comprising the Life of the Wisest Man of His Times : His Childhood, Youth, and Prime : His Adventures in Love and Marriage, at Court, and in Office, War, Revolution, and Plague : His Travels at Home and Abroad : His Habits, Tastes, Whims, and Opinions
Source: Selected essays of Montaigne: in the translation of John Florio
“Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities.”
Source: Shakespeare's Montaigne: The Florio Translation of the Essays, A Selection
“And obstinacy is the sister of constancy, at least in vigour and stability.”
“From Obedience and submission comes all our virtues, and all sin is comes from self-opinion.”
“Take care that old age does not wrinkle your spirit even more than your face.”
“Men ... are not agreed about any one thing, not even that heaven is over our heads.”
Source: Essays
Source: Essays of Montaigne
“The conduct of our lives is the true mirror of our doctrine.”
Source: Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne: In Three Books with Marginal Notes and Quotations. And an Account of the Author's Life. With a Short Character of the Author and Translator,
“I seek in the reading of books, only to please myself, by an honest diversion.”
Source: Michel de Montaigne: Selected Essays
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)
Source: Annotated Essays of Michel de Montaigne with English Grammar Exercises: by Michel de Montaigne (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)
Source: Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays
“Tis faith alone that vividly and certainly comprehends the deep mysteries of our religion.”
Source: The Essays of Michel de Montaigne
“Every place swarms with commentaries; of authors there is great scarcity.”
Source: Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)
Source: Selected Essays: The Charles Cotton - W.C. Hazlitt Translation, Rev. and Edited, with an Introd
“Nature has, herself, I fear, imprinted in man a kind of instinct to inhumanity.”
Source: Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays
“There is nothing so extreme that is not allowed by the custom of some nation or other.”
Source: The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy. With Notes from All the Commentators, Biographical and Bibliographical Notices &c., &c
“The laws of conscience, though we ascribe them to nature, actually come from custom.”
Source: All the Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne
Source: Shakespeare's Montaigne: The Florio Translation of the Essays, A Selection
“The perpetual work of your life is but to lay the foundation of death.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)
“He who falls obstinate in his courage, if he falls he fights from his knees.”
“The dispersing and scattering our names into many mouths, we call making them more great.”
Source: All the Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne
“We are more solicitous that men speak of us, than how they speak.”
Source: Michel de Montaigne: Selected Essays
“Glory and repose are things that cannot possibly inhabit in one and the same place.”
Source: Michel de Montaigne: Selected Essays
“The shortest way to arrive at glory would be to do that for conscience which we do for glory.”
Source: Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays
Source: All the Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne
“What a man hates, he takes seriously.”
Source: Essays
Source: The Essays of Michel de Montaigne
“He that had never seen a river, imagined the first he met with to be the sea.”
Source: Selected essays
Source: Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays
“The judgment is an utensil proper for all subjects, and will have an oar in everything.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)
Source: Annotated Essays of Michel de Montaigne with English Grammar Exercises: by Michel de Montaigne (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)
“The wise man lives as long as he ought, not so long as he can.”
Source: Montaigne's Essays in Three Books: With Notes and Quotations. And an Account of the Author's Life. With a Short Character of the Author and Translator
Source: Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays
“In love, 'tis no other than frantic desire for that which flies from us.”
Source: Michel de Montaigne: Selected Essays