Michel de Montaigne Quotes

Michel de Montaigne Quotes. Below is a collection of famous Michel de Montaigne quotes. Here you can find the most popular and greatest quotes by Michel de Montaigne. Share these quotations with your friends and family.

He who has not a good memory should never take upon himself the trade of lying.
By Michel de Montaigne
| Comment 0
Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
By Michel de Montaigne
| Comment 0
Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
By Michel de Montaigne
| Comment 0
Even on the highest throne in the world, we are still sitting on our ass.
By Michel de Montaigne
| Comment 0
Don't discuss yourself, for you are bound to lose if you belittle yourself, you are believed if you praise yourself, you are disbelieved.
By Michel de Montaigne
| Comment 0
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.
By Michel de Montaigne
| Comment 0
Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity.
By Michel de Montaigne
| Comment 0
Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.
By Michel de Montaigne
| Comment 0
Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
By Michel de Montaigne
| Comment 0
An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
By Michel de Montaigne
| Comment 0
A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
By Michel de Montaigne
| Comment 0
A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.
By Michel de Montaigne
| Comment 0
A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
By Michel de Montaigne
| Comment 0
A man of understanding has lost nothing, if he has himself.
By Michel de Montaigne
| Comment 0
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
By Michel de Montaigne
| Comment 0
'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
By Michel de Montaigne
| Comment 0
Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
By Michel de Montaigne
| Comment 0
We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
By Michel de Montaigne
| Comment 0
We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
By Michel de Montaigne
| Comment 0
How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
By Michel de Montaigne
| Comment 0
Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
By Michel de Montaigne
| Comment 0
It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.
By Michel de Montaigne
| Comment 0
Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.
By Michel de Montaigne
| Comment 0
The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
By Michel de Montaigne
| Comment 0
The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
By Michel de Montaigne
| Comment 0
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.
By Michel de Montaigne
| Comment 0
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.
By Michel de Montaigne
| Comment 0
Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
By Michel de Montaigne
| Comment 0
Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
By Michel de Montaigne
| Comment 0
An unattempted lady could not vaunt of her chastity.
By Michel de Montaigne
| Comment 0