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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
I must use these great men's virtues as a cloak for my weakness.
— Michel De Montaigne
Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.
— Michel De Montaigne
No one is exempt from talking nonsense; the misfortune is to do it solemnly
— Michel De Montaigne
Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.
— Michel De Montaigne
Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and the one nearest at hand.
— Michel De Montaigne
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
Thus we should beware of clinging to vulgar opinions, and judge things by reason's way, not by popular say.
— 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
We can be knowledgeable with another man's knowledge, but we can't be wise with another man's wisdom.
— Michel De Montaigne
Rash and incessant scolding runs into custom and renders itself despised.
— Michel De Montaigne
The property of Man's wit to act readily and quickly, while the property of the judgement is to be slow and poised.
— Michel De Montaigne
Every one's true worship was that which he found in use in the place where he chanced to be.
— 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
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
It's not victory if it doesn't end the war.
— Michel De Montaigne
We seem ambitious God's whole work to undo ... With new diseases on ourselves we war, And with new physic, a worse engine far.
— Michel De Montaigne
The conduct of our lives is the true mirror of our doctrine.
— 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
I love a gay and sociable wisdom, and shun harshness and austerity in behaviour, holding every surly countenance suspect.
— Michel De Montaigne
Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity.
— 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
Every man may speak truly, but to speak methodically, prudently, and fully is a talent that few men have.
— Michel De Montaigne
There is a certain amount of purpose, acquiescence, and satisfaction in nursing one's melancholy.
— Michel De Montaigne
From Obedience and submission comes all our virtues, and all sin is comes from self-opinion.
— Michel De Montaigne
The beauty of stature is the only beauty of men.
— Michel De Montaigne
Everyone gives the title of barbarism to everything that is not in use in his own country.
— 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
It is not my deeds that I write down, it is myself, my essence.
— 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
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
Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
— Michel De Montaigne
Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
— Michel De Montaigne
It is putting a very high price on one's conjectures to have someone roasted alive on their account.
— Michel De Montaigne
I leaf through books, I do not study them. What I retain of them is something I no longer recognize as anyone else's.
— Michel De Montaigne
I'm quite influenced in this by one of my heroes, Montaigne, who thought a man's real task was to render as honest an account of himself as he could.
— Robert Sheckley
Children's games are hardly games. Children are never more serious than when they play.
— Michel De Montaigne
We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
— Michel De Montaigne
Montaigne: Religion's surest foundation is the contempt for life.
— Christopher Hitchens
One should always have one's boots on and be ready to leave.
— Michel De Montaigne
There is nothing in which a horse's power is better revealed than in a neat, clean stop.
— Michel De Montaigne
The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar.
— Michel De Montaigne
The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
— Michel De Montaigne
(A writer's working space, Montaigne also believed, ought to have a good view of the cemetery; it tended to sharpen one's thinking.)
— Oliver Burkeman
Most of our desires are born and nurtured at other people's expense.
— Michel De Montaigne
Have seen no other effects in rods but to make children's minds more remiss or more maliciously headstrong.
— Michel De Montaigne
It is taking one's conjectures rather seriously to roast someone alive for them.
— Michel De Montaigne
[Sweet it is during a tempest when the gales lash the waves to watch from the shore another man's great striving.]3
— Michel De Montaigne
My business is only to keep myself in motion, whilst motion pleases me; I only walk for the walk's sake.
— 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
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
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[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