Famous Quotes / Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
187 Quotations by Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
- 81. Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its l ...
- 82. Man is stark mad; he cannot make a flea, and yet he will be making gods by the dozens.
- 83. Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate ...
- 84. Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate ...
- 85. My art and profession is to live.
- 86. My home...It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against ...
- 87. My life has been filled with terrible misfortune; most of which never happened.
- 88. My reason is not framed to bend or stoop: my knees are.
- 89. Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.
- 90. No man continues to do unfavorable things for long except by his own fault.
- 91. No man continues to do unfavorable things for long except by his own fault.
- 92. No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.
- 93. No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.
- 94. No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times in his life he might not la ...
- 95. No profession or occupation is more pleasing than the military; a profession or exercise both noble ...
- 96. No profession or occupation is more pleasing than the military; a profession or exercise both noble ...
- 97. No wind favors him who has no destined port.
- 98. No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
- 99. Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and apply myself to them if they will not apply th ...
- 100. Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.