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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
— Michel De Montaigne
No one is exempt from talking nonsense; the misfortune is to do it solemnly
— Michel De Montaigne
There is no so wretched and coarse a soul wherein some particular faculty is not seen to shine.
— Michel De Montaigne
Though we may be learned by another's knowledge, we can never be wise but by our own experience.
— Michel De Montaigne
For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
— Michel De Montaigne
Report followeth not all goodness, except difficulty and rarity be joined thereto.
— Michel De Montaigne
It is fear that I am most afraid of.
— Michel De Montaigne
The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes.
— Michel De Montaigne
It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
— Michel De Montaigne
We call comeliness a mischance in the first respect, which belongs principally to the face.
— Michel De Montaigne
Death is not one of our social managements; it is a scene with one character.
— Michel De Montaigne
In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.
— Michel De Montaigne
I see this evident, that we willingly accord to piety only the services that flatter our passions.
— Michel De Montaigne
I quote others in order to better express myself.
— Michel De Montaigne
Even opinion is of force enough to make itself to be espoused at the expense of life.
— Michel De Montaigne
I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice.
— Michel De Montaigne
Obstinacy and contention are common qualities, most appearing in, and best becoming, a mean and illiterate soul.
— Michel De Montaigne
Diogenes was asked what wine he liked best; and he answered as I would have done when he said, "Somebody else's".
— Michel De Montaigne
A man must live in the world and make the best of it, such as it is.
— Michel De Montaigne
The least strained and most natural ways of the soul are the most beautiful; the best occupations are the least forced.
— Michel De Montaigne
The world is but a school of inquisition; it is not who shall enter the ring, but who shall run the best courses.
— Michel De Montaigne
Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
— Michel De Montaigne
The oldest and best known evil was ever more supportable than one that was new and untried.
— Michel De Montaigne
In our time the most warlike nations are the most rude and ignorant.
— Michel De Montaigne
Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul
— Michel De Montaigne
There is as much difference between us and ourselves as there is between us and others.
— Michel De Montaigne
There is nothing on which men are commonly more intent than on making a way for their opinions.
— Michel De Montaigne
It is not a mind, it is not a body that we educate, but it is a man, and we must not make two parts of him.
— Michel De Montaigne
I speak to the paper, as I speak to the first person I meet.
— Michel De Montaigne
Friendship is a creature formed for a companionship not for a herd.
— Michel De Montaigne
Gentleness and repose are paramount to everything else in woman.
— Michel De Montaigne
One should be ever booted and spurred and ready to depart.
— Michel De Montaigne
As far as I am concerned, no road that would lead us to health is either arduous or expensive.
— Michel De Montaigne
Fie on the eloquence that leaves us craving itself, not things!
— Michel De Montaigne
We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
— Michel De Montaigne
All the world knows me in my book, and my book in me.
— Michel De Montaigne
Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the mind as the wish to forget it.
— Michel De Montaigne
Whatever can be done another day can be done today.
— Michel De Montaigne
Were I to live my life over again, I should live it just as I have done. I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.
— Michel De Montaigne
A well-bred man is always sociable and complaisant.
— Michel De Montaigne
The sage says that all that is under heaven incurs the same law and the same fate.
— Michel De Montaigne
Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.
— Michel De Montaigne
[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.
— Michel De Montaigne
Glory consists of two parts: the one in setting too great a value upon ourselves, and the other in setting too little a value upon others.
— Michel De Montaigne
Man in sooth is a marvellous, vain, fickle, and unstable subject.
— Michel De Montaigne