54 Quotations by Michel de Montaigne
- 21. It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others
- 22. Malice sucks up the greater part of her own venom, and poisons herself.
- 23. Man is certainly stark mad. He cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.
- 24. Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a flea, yet he makes gods by the dozens.
- 25. Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally de ...
- 26. Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
- 27. No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.
- 28. Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
- 29. Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.
- 30. Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the ...
- 31. Since we cannot match it let us take our revenge by abusing it.
- 32. So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and contr ...
- 33. The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
- 34. The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors ...
- 35. The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
- 36. The most manifest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness; her state is like that in the regions ...
- 37. The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it.
- 38. The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
- 39. The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
- 40. There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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