187 Quotations by Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
- 21. Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom.
- 22. Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.
- 23. Every day, I hear fools say things that are not foolish.
- 24. Example is a bright looking-glass, universal and for all shapes to look into.
- 25. Extremity of philosophy is hurtful.
- 26. Few men have been admired by their own households.
- 27. Few men have been admired of their familiars.
- 28. For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their mos ...
- 29. Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
- 30. From Obedience and submission comes all our virtues, and all sin is come from self-opinion.
- 31. Greatness of soul consists not so much in soaring high and in pressing forward, as in knowing how to ...
- 32. Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities.
- 33. He who does not live in some degree for others, hardly lives for himself.
- 34. He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
- 35. He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
- 36. He who has not a good memory should never take upon himself the trade of lying.
- 37. He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
- 38. He who lives not to others, lives little to himself.
- 39. How many things are there that we regarded as articles of faith yesterday and that we tell as fables ...
- 40. How many things served us but yesterday as articles of faith, which today we deem but fables?
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