“Lovers are angry, reconciled, entreat, thank, appoint, and finally speak all things, by their.”
Quote by Michel de Montaigne
“It is the rule of rules, and the general law of all laws, that every person should observe those of the place where he is.”
Source: The Essays of Michael de Montaigne
“Fortune does us neither good nor hurt; she only presents us the matter, and the seed, which our soul, more powerfully than she, turns and applies as she best pleases; being the sole cause and sovereign mistress of her own happy or unhappy condition.”
Source: The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy
“Fortune, to show us her power in all things, and to abate our presumption, seeing she could not make fools wise, has made them fortunate.”
Source: All the Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne
“Friendship that possesses the whole soul, and there rules and sways with an absolute sovereignty, can admit of no rival.”
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
“I love a friendship that flatters itself in the sharpness and vigor of its communications.”
“Who is only good that others may know it, and that he may be the better esteemed when 'tis known, who will do well but upon condition that his virtue may be known to men, is one from whom much service is not to be expected.”
Source: Works: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy; with Notes, Notices, Etc
“A young man ought to cross his own rules, to awake his vigor, and to keep it from growing faint and rusty. And there is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is carried on by rule and discipline.”
Source: All the Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne
“In my opinion it is the happy living, and not, as Antisthenes said, the happy lying, in which human happiness consists.”
“Knowledge is an excellent drug; but no drug has virtue enough to preserve itself from corruption and decay, if the vessel be tainted and impure wherein it is put to keep.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)
“After a tongue has once got the knack of lying, it is not to be imagined how impossible almost it is to reclaim it. Whence it comes to pass, that we see some men, who are otherwise very honest, so subject to this vice.”
