Michel de Montaigne Quotes

"Wise men have more to learn of fools than fools of wise men."
-Michel de Montaigne

"There are some defeats more triumphant than victories."
-Michel de Montaigne in Defeat quotes.

"No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately."
-Michel de Montaigne

"He who fears will suffer, he already suffers from his fear."
-Michel de Montaigne

"Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be."
-Michel de Montaigne

"I believe it to be true that dreams are the true interpreters of our inclinations; but there is art required to sort and understand them."
-Michel de Montaigne

"A man of understanding has lost nothing, if he has himself. "
-Michel de Montaigne

"He who has not a good memory should never take upon himself the trade of lying."
-Michel de Montaigne

"Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a flea, yet he makes gods by the dozens."
-Michel de Montaigne

"It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others."
-Michel de Montaigne

"It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one."
-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 in Truth quotes.

"When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her."
-Michel de Montaigne

"I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself."
-Michel de Montaigne

"He who establishes his argument by noise and command, shows that his reason is weak."
-Michel de Montaigne

"The value of life is not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them; a man may live long yet very little."
-Michel de Montaigne in Life quotes.

"Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible."
-Michel de Montaigne

"When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind."
-Michel de Montaigne in Books quotes.

"Each man calls barbarism what is not his own practice for indeed it seems we have no other test of truth and reason that the example and pattern of the opinions and customs of the country we live in."
-Michel de Montaigne

"Not being able to govern events, I govern myself."
-Michel de Montaigne

"There is as much difference between us and ourselves as there is between us and others."
-Michel de Montaigne

"There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees."
-Michel de Montaigne

"The thing in the world I am most of afraid of is fear, and with good reason,that passion alone in the trouble of it exceeding other accidents."
-Michel de Montaigne

"Ambition is not a vice of little people."
-Michel de Montaigne

"Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom."
-Michel de Montaigne

"In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection, otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books."
-Michel de Montaigne

"When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss; his accusations of himself are always believed; his praises never."
-Michel de Montaigne