01c. 1562 ADNo man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged.Michel de Montaigne / quote ↗
04c. 1562 ADThe value of life lies not in the length of days but in the use we make of them a man may live long yet live very little.Michel de Montaigne / quote ↗
05c. 1562 ADThere never were two opinions alike in all the world no more than two hours or two grains: the most universal quality is diversity.Michel de Montaigne / quote ↗
06c. 1562 ADThere is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order method and discipline.Michel de Montaigne / quote ↗
07c. 1562 ADDiogenes was asked what wine he liked best and he answered "Somebody else's."Michel de Montaigne / quote ↗
09c. 1562 ADThere are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God.Michel de Montaigne / quote ↗
10c. 1562 ADThere is no greater enemy to those who would please than expectation.Michel de Montaigne / quote ↗
11c. 1562 ADThe greatest thing in the world is to know how to be one's own selfMichel de Montaigne / quote ↗
12c. 1562 ADI care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself and not by borrowing.Michel de Montaigne / quote ↗
13c. 1562 ADOf all our infirmities the most savage is to despise our being.Michel de Montaigne / quote ↗
15c. 1562 ADI 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 / quote ↗
16c. 1562 ADWhen I religiously confess myself to myself I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice.Michel de Montaigne / quote ↗
18c. 1562 ADThe word is half his that speaks and half his that hears it.Michel de Montaigne / quote ↗
21c. 1562 ADI never rebel so much against France as not to regard Paris with a friendly eye; she has had my heart since my childhood.... I love her tenderly, even to her warts and her spots. I am French only by this great city: the glory of France, and one of the noblest ornaments of the world.Michel de Montaigne / quote ↗
22c. 1562 ADDifficulty is a coin which the learned conjure with so as not to reveal the vanity of their studies and which human stupidity is keen to accept in paymentMichel de Montaigne / quote ↗
23c. 1562 ADThose who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.Michel de Montaigne / quote ↗
24c. 1562 ADThere is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.Michel de Montaigne / quote ↗
