Michel De Montaigne Quotes
Every one's true worship was that which he found in use in the place where he chanced to be.
Even opinion is of force enough to make itself to be espoused at the expense of life.
Even in the midst of compassion we feel within I know not what tart sweet titillation of malicious pleasure in seeing others suffer; children have the same feeling.
Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
Whatever the Benefits of Fortune are , they yet require a Palate fit to relish and taste them; 'Tis Fruition, and not Possession, that renders us Happy.
There is a certain amount of purpose, acquiescence, and satisfaction in nursing one's melancholy.
People of our time are so formed for agitation and ostentation that goodness, moderation, equability, constancy, and such quiet and obscure qualities are no longer felt.
If I were a maker of books I should compile a register, with comments, of different deaths. He who should teach people to die, would teach them to live.
There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thoughts under the scrutiny of the laws, he would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.
Eloquence is an engine invented to manage and wield at will the fierce democracy, and, like medicine to the sick, is only employed in the paroxysms of a disordered state.
The shortest way to arrive at glory would be to do that for conscience which we do for glory.
No one but yourself knows whether you are cowardly and cruel, or loyal and devout; others do not see you; they surmise you by uncertain conjectures; they perceive not so much your nature as your art.
The worst condition of humans is when they lose knowledge and control of themselves.
Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest
Greatness of soul consists not so much in soaring high and in pressing forward, as in knowing how to adapt and limit oneself.
There is nothing so extreme that is not allowed by the custom of some nation or other.
A learned man is not learned in all things; but a sufficient man is sufficient throughout, even to ignorance itself.
It is setting a high value upon our opinions to roast men and women alive on account of them.
Women are not altogether in the wrong when they refuse the rules of life prescribed to the World, for men only have established them and without their consent.
We owe subjection and obedience to all our kings, whether good or bad, alike, for that has respect unto their office; but as to esteem and affection, these are only due to their virtue.
We are never present with, but always beyond ourselves; fear, desire, hope, still push us on toward the future.
The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
Wisdom is a solid and entire building, of which every piece keeps its place and bears its mark.
Decency, not to dare to do that in public which it is decent enough to do in private.
I want death to find me planting my cabbages, but careless of death, and still more of my unfinished garden.
True it is that she who escapeth safe and unpolluted from out the school of freedom, giveth more confidence of herself than she who comet sound out of the school of severity and restraint.
The relish of good and evil depends in a great measure upon the opinion we have of them.
Amongst all other vices there is none I hate more than cruelty, both by nature and judgment, as the extremest of all vices.
The honor we receive from those that fear us, is not honor; those respects are paid to royalty and not to me.
From Obedience and submission comes all our virtues, and all sin is comes from self-opinion.