54 Quotations by Michel de Montaigne
- 1. A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

- 2. A man of understanding has lost nothing, if he has himself.

- 3. Ambition is not a vice of little people.

- 4. Don't discuss yourself, for you are bound to lose; if you belittle yourself, you are believed; if yo ...

- 5. Even on the highest throne in the world, we are still sitting on our ass.

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

- 7. He who establishes his argument by noise and command, shows that his reason is weak.

- 8. He who has not a good memory should never take upon himself the trade of lying.

- 9. He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.

- 10. I believe it to be true that dreams are the true interpreters of our inclinations; but there is art ...

- 11. I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself.

- 12. I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.

- 13. I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrec ...

- 14. I quote others only in order the better to express myself.

- 15. I will follow the right side even to the fire, but excluding the fire if I can.

- 16. If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expre ...

- 17. If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Beca ...

- 18. In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection, otherwise yo ...

- 19. In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, t ...

- 20. It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one.

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