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Famous Michel de Montaigne Quotes
“Even opinion is of force enough to make itself to be espoused at the expense of life.”
“Man is quite insane. He wouldn?t know how to create a maggot, and he creates Gods by the dozen.”
“To make a crooked stick straight, we bend it the contrary way.”
“When we have got it, we want something else.”
“When we see a man with bad shoes, we say it is no wonder, if he is a shoemaker.”
“Every one's true worship was that which he found in use in the place where he chanced to be.”
“Habituation puts to sleep the eye of our judgment.”
“No noble thing can be done without risks.”
“The customs and practices of life in society sweep us along.”
“As for extraordinary things, all the provision in the world would not suffice.”
“All of the days go toward death and the last one arrives there.”
“Man is forming thousands of ridiculous relations between himself and God.”
“And not to serve for a table-talk.”
“Words repeated again have as another sound, so another sense.”
“Not because Socrates said so,... I look upon all men as my compatriots.”
“A man must either imitate the vicious or hate them.”
“Things are not bad in themselves, but our cowardice makes them so.”
“Whatever can be done another day can be done today.”
“For truth itself has not the privilege to be spoken at all times and in all sorts.”
“The diversity of physical arguments and opinions embraces all sorts of methods.”
“We are nearer neighbours to ourselves than whiteness to snow, or weight to stones.”
“All the opinions in the world point out that pleasure is our aim.”
“A man may be humble through vainglory.”
“Malice sucks up the greatest part of its own venom, and poisons itself.”