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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
— Michel De Montaigne
It is an absolute perfection ... to get the very most out of one's individuality.
— Michel De Montaigne
No one is exempt from talking nonsense; the misfortune is to do it solemnly
— Michel De Montaigne
To paraphrase Montaigne - even when you're sitting on the highest throne in the world, you're still sitting on your arse.
— M.J. Carter
I myself am more ready to distort a fine saying in order to patch it on to me than to distort the thread of my argument to go in search of one. [A]
— Michel De Montaigne
There is no so wretched and coarse a soul wherein some particular faculty is not seen to shine.
— Michel De Montaigne
What hits you affects you and wakes you up more then what pleases you.
— Michel De Montaigne
Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
— Michel De Montaigne
Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
— 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
Rash and incessant scolding runs into custom and renders itself despised.
— Michel De Montaigne
The thing I fear most is fear.
— Michel De Montaigne
It is indeed the boundary of life, beyond which we are not to pass; which the law of nature has pitched for a limit not to be exceeded.
— Michel De Montaigne
I speak the truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little more as I grow older.
— 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
The conduct of our lives is the true mirror of our doctrine.
— Michel De Montaigne
It is not my deeds that I write down, it is myself, my essence.
— Michel De Montaigne
We seek and offer ourselves to be gulled.
— Michel De Montaigne
My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
— Michel De Montaigne
To smell, though well, is to stink.
— Michel De Montaigne
Decency, not to dare to do that in public which it is decent enough to do in private.
— Michel De Montaigne
A liar would be brave toward God, while he is a coward toward men; for a lie faces God, and shrinks from man.
— Michel De Montaigne
The beauty of stature is the only beauty of men.
— Michel De Montaigne
No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
— Michel De Montaigne
Why did I love her? Because it was her; because it was me.
— Michel De Montaigne
There is a certain amount of purpose, acquiescence, and satisfaction in nursing one's melancholy.
— Michel De Montaigne
It is the rule of rules, and the general law of all laws, that every person should observe those of the place where he is.
— Michel De Montaigne
I moreover affirm that our wisdom itself, and wisest consultations, for the most part commit themselves to the conduct of chance.
— Michel De Montaigne
Everyone gives the title of barbarism to everything that is not in use in his own country.
— Michel De Montaigne
From Obedience and submission comes all our virtues, and all sin is comes from self-opinion.
— Michel De Montaigne
Every man may speak truly, but to speak methodically, prudently, and fully is a talent that few men have.
— Michel De Montaigne
The truth of these days is not that which really is, but what every man persuades another man to believe.
— Michel De Montaigne
Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.
— Michel De Montaigne
Obstinacy and contention are common qualities, most appearing in, and best becoming, a mean and illiterate soul.
— Michel De Montaigne
I set forth notions that are human and my own, simply as human notions considered in themselves, not as determined and decreed by heavenly ordinance.
— Michel De Montaigne
Things are not bad in themselves, but our cowardice makes them so.
— Michel De Montaigne
Dreams are faithful interpreters of our inclinations; but there is art required to sort and understand them.
— Michel De Montaigne
Fear sometimes adds wings to the heels, and sometimes nails them to the ground, and fetters them from moving.
— Michel De Montaigne
How many quarrels, and how important, has the doubt as to the meaning of this syllable "Hoc" produced for the world!
— Michel De Montaigne
When I quote others I do so in order to express my own ideas more clearly.
— Michel De Montaigne
Those who have compared our life to a dream were right ... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
— Michel De Montaigne
The day of your birth leads you to death as well as to life .
— Michel De Montaigne
The reverse side of truth has a hundred thousand shapes and no defined limits.
— Michel De Montaigne
Every movement reveals us.
— Michel De Montaigne
Let every foot have its own shoe.
— Michel De Montaigne
Get a purge for your brain. It will do better than for your stomach. - Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
— David Allen
If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.
— Michel De Montaigne
The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation.
— Michel De Montaigne
As for me, then, I love life and cultivate it just as God has been pleased to grant it to us.
— Michel De Montaigne
Habituation puts to sleep the eye of our judgment.
— Michel De Montaigne
There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
— Michel De Montaigne
I love a gay and sociable wisdom, and shun harshness and austerity in behaviour, holding every surly countenance suspect.
— Michel De Montaigne
Necessity is a violent school-mistress.
— Michel De Montaigne
Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul
— Michel De Montaigne
I quote others in order to better express myself.
— Michel De Montaigne
Man in sooth is a marvellous, vain, fickle, and unstable subject.
— 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
[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.
— 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
A man must always study, but he must not always go to school: what a contemptible thing is an old abecedarian!
— Michel De Montaigne
The sage says that all that is under heaven incurs the same law and the same fate.
— Michel De Montaigne
A well-bred man is always sociable and complaisant.
— 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
Whatever can be done another day can be done today.
— Michel De Montaigne
Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the mind as the wish to forget it.
— Michel De Montaigne
All the world knows me in my book, and my book in me.
— Michel De Montaigne
We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
— Michel De Montaigne
Fie on the eloquence that leaves us craving itself, not things!
— 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
One should be ever booted and spurred and ready to depart.
— Michel De Montaigne
Gentleness and repose are paramount to everything else in woman.
— Michel De Montaigne
Friendship is a creature formed for a companionship not for a herd.
— Michel De Montaigne
I speak to the paper, as I speak to the first person I meet.
— 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
There is nothing on which men are commonly more intent than on making a way for their opinions.
— Michel De Montaigne
There is as much difference between us and ourselves as there is between us and others.
— Michel De Montaigne
No pleasure is fully delightful without communications, and no delight absolute except imparted.
— Michel De Montaigne
Women when they marry buy a cat in the bag.
— Michel De Montaigne
The plague of man is the opinion of knowledge. That is why ignorance is so recommended by our religion as a quality suitable to belief and obedience.
— Michel De Montaigne
In love, 'tis no other than frantic desire for that which flies from us.
— Michel De Montaigne
I will follow the good side right to the fire, but not into it if I can help it.
— Michel De Montaigne
Certainly, if he still has himself, a man of understanding has lost nothing.
— Michel De Montaigne
Lying is a terrible vice, it testifies that one despises God, but fears men.
— Michel De Montaigne
The archer who overshoots his mark does no better than he who falls short of it.
— Michel De Montaigne
All passions that suffer themselves to be relished and digested are but moderate.
— Michel De Montaigne
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
— Michel De Montaigne
Reason has so many forms that we do not know which to choose-Experiment has no fewer.
— Michel De Montaigne
Whoever believes anything esteems that it is a work of charity to persuade another of it.
— Michel De Montaigne
The laws of conscience, though we ascribe them to nature, actually come from custom.
— Michel De Montaigne
I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice.
— Michel De Montaigne
Even opinion is of force enough to make itself to be espoused at the expense of life.
— Michel De Montaigne
Report followeth not all goodness, except difficulty and rarity be joined thereto.
— Michel De Montaigne
I see this evident, that we willingly accord to piety only the services that flatter our passions.
— 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
Death is not one of our social managements; it is a scene with one character.
— Michel De Montaigne
We call comeliness a mischance in the first respect, which belongs principally to the face.
— Michel De Montaigne
It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
— 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 fear that I am most afraid of.
— Michel De Montaigne