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Famous Michel de Montaigne Quotes
“The curiosity of knowing things has been given to man for a scourge.”
“Men are tormented by the opinions they have of things, and not the things themselves.”
“We do not correct the man we hang; we correct others by him.”
“Wise men have more to learn of fools than fools of wise men.”
“No man profiteth but by the loss of others.”
“A man has need of tough ears to hear himself fairly judged.”
“I would have every man write what he knows and no more.”
“There is a plague on Man, the opinion that he knows something.”
“A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.”
“A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.”
“Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.”
“Few men have been admired of their familiars.”
“The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.”
“Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.”
“Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.”
“Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm or a flea and yet will create Gods by the dozen!”
“Certainly, if he still has himself, a man of understanding has lost nothing.”