187 Quotations by Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
- 41. I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by ...
- 42. I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be cov ...
- 43. I consider myself an average man, except in the fact that I consider myself an average man.
- 44. I do myself a greater injury in lying that I do him of whom I tell a lie.
- 45. I don't care as much for what I am to others as I do for what I am to myself.
- 46. I have never seen a greater monster or miracle than myself.
- 47. I know what I am fleeing from, but not what I am in search of.
- 48. I love those historians that are either very simple or most excellent. Such as are between both (whi ...
- 49. I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrec ...
- 50. I quote others in order to better express myself.
- 51. I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things ...
- 52. I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I g ...
- 53. I want death to find me planting my cabbage
- 54. I was not long since in a company where I was not who of my fraternity brought news of a kind of pil ...
- 55. If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Beca ...
- 56. If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
- 57. If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and ad ...
- 58. If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
- 59. In my opinion, the most fruitful and natural play of the mind is in conversation. I find it sweeter ...
- 60. In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but ...
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