Quotes by Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

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If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I. — Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself. — Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
I quote others only in order the better to express myself. — Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens. — Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar. — Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own. — Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
L'utilité du vivre n'est pas en l'espace: elle est en l'usage. — Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
Heureuse la mort qui oste le loisir aux apprests de tel equipage. — Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
D'autant que nous avons cher, estre, et estre consiste en mouvement et action. — Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
L'honneste est stable et permanent. — Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
J'accuse toute violence en l'education d'une ame tendre, qu'on dresse pour l'honneur, et la liberté. — Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
Je hay entre autres vices, cruellement la cruauté, et par nature et par jugement, comme l'extreme de tous les vices. — Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
Il n'est rien qui tente mes larmes que les larmes. — Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
Les naturels sanguinaires à l'endroit des bestes, tesmoignent une propension naturelle à la cruauté. — Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
Nature a, (ce crains-je) elle mesme attaché à l'homme quelque instinct à l'inhumanité — Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
Why do people respect the package rather than the man? — Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
It is a disaster that wisdom forbids you to be satisfied with yourself and always sends you away dissatisfied and fearfu — Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents. — Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
All is a-swarm with commentaries: of authors there is a dearth. — Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know. — Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays