187 Quotations by Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
- 1. A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
- 2. A man must live in the world and make the best of it, such as it is.
- 3. A man should ever be ready booted to take his journey.
- 4. A person is bound to lose when he talks about himself; if he belittles himself, he is believed; if h ...
- 5. A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
- 6. After mature deliberation of counsel, the good Queen to establish a rule and immutable example unto ...
- 7. Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
- 8. All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly.
- 9. All the world knows me in my book, and may book in me.
- 10. Ambition is not a vice of little people.
- 11. An unattempted lady could not vaunt of her chastity.
- 12. But sure there is need of other remedies than dreaming, a weak contention of art against nature.
- 13. Confidence in another person's virtue is no light evidence of your own.
- 14. Cowardice is the mother of cruelty.
- 15. Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
- 16. Desire and hope will push us on toward the future.
- 17. Desires increase as they are fulfilled.
- 18. Diogenes was asked what wine he liked best, and he answered, "Somebody else's."
- 19. Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.
- 20. Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, gr ...
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