187 Quotations by Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
- 161. There never was in the world two opinions alike, no more than two hairs or two grains. The most univ ...
- 162. Things seem greater by imagination than they are in effect.
- 163. Those things that are dearest to us have cost us the most.
- 164. To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us..
- 165. True it is that she who escapeth safe and unpolluted from out the school of freedom, giveth more con ...
- 166. Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
- 167. Virtue craves a steep and thorny path.
- 168. Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
- 169. We are all of us richer than we think we are.
- 170. We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
- 171. We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the ...
- 172. We endeavor more that men should speak of us, than how and what they speak, and it sufficeth us that ...
- 173. We need very strong ears to hear ourselves judged frankly, and because there are few who can endure ...
- 174. We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and vo ...
- 175. We should rather examine, who is better learned, than who is more learned.
- 176. We undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and th ...
- 177. What harm cause not those huge draughts or pictures which wanton youth with chalk or coals draw in e ...
- 178. When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books, They quickly ...
- 179. When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
- 180. When we have got it, we want something else.
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