Quote: Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge ourselves with railing against it. [Michel de Montaigne]
Quote: The most manifest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness; her state is like that in the regions above the moon, always clear and serene. [Michel de Montaigne]
Quote: It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others. [Michel de Montaigne]
Quote: There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to. [Michel de Montaigne]
Quote: But sure there is need of other remedies than dreaming, a weak contention of art against nature. [Michel de Montaigne]
Quote: I want death to find me planting my cabbage [Michel de Montaigne]
Quote: Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it. [Michel de Montaigne]
Quote: 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. [Michel de Montaigne]
Quote: It is not death that alarms me, but dying. [Michel de Montaigne]
Quote: There are some defeats more triumphant than victories. [Michel de Montaigne]
Quote: An unattempted lady could not vaunt of her chastity. [Michel de Montaigne]
Quote: The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom. [Michel de Montaigne]
Quote: Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged. [Michel de Montaigne]
Quote: The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness. [Michel de Montaigne]
Quote: Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations. [Michel de Montaigne]
Quote: Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky. [Michel de Montaigne]
Quote: It is not the want, but rather abundance that creates avarice. [Michel de Montaigne]
Quote: Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself. [Michel de Montaigne]
Quote: Habit is second nature. [Michel de Montaigne]
Quote: It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many. [Michel de Montaigne]
Quote: If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself. [Michel de Montaigne]
Quote: The thing I fear most is fear. [Michel de Montaigne]
Quote: No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged. [Michel de Montaigne]
Quote: I love those historians that are either very simple or most excellent. Such as are between both (which is the most common fashion), it is they that spoil all; they will needs chew our meat for us and take upon them a law to judge, and by consequence to square and incline the story according to their fantasy. [Michel de Montaigne]
Quote: I do myself a greater injury in lying that I do him of whom I tell a lie. [Michel de Montaigne]