Famous Quotes / Michel de Montaigne
54 Quotations by Michel de Montaigne
- 41. There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
- 42. There is as much difference between us and ourselves as there is between us and others.
- 43. There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
- 44. There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
- 45. There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes ...
- 46. There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an ent ...
- 47. There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn ...
- 48. Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
- 49. To philosophize is to doubt.
- 50. We have more poets thatnjudges and interpreters of poetry. It is easier to write an indifferent poem ...
- 51. When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss; his accusations of himself are al ...
- 52. When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly ...
- 53. Who feareth to suffer, suffereth already, because he feareth.
- 54. Wise men have more to learn of fools than fools of wise men.