Famous Quotes
253 Quotations with Montaigne.
- 1. Michel de Montaigne: Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
- 2. Michel de Montaigne: When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my ...
- 3. Michel de Montaigne: There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
- 4. Michel de Montaigne: He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
- 5. Michel de Montaigne: Don't discuss yourself, for you are bound to lose; if you belittle yourself, you ...
- 6. Michel de Montaigne: Even on the highest throne in the world, we are still sitting on our ass.
- 7. Michel de Montaigne: I will follow the right side even to the fire, but excluding the fire if I can.
- 8. Michel de Montaigne: Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.
- 9. Michel de Montaigne: To philosophize is to doubt.
- 10. Michel de Montaigne: Since we cannot match it let us take our revenge by abusing it.
- 11. Michel de Montaigne: Ambition is not a vice of little people.
- 12. Michel de Montaigne: He who establishes his argument by noise and command, shows that his reason is w ...
- 13. Michel de Montaigne: He who has not a good memory should never take upon himself the trade of lying.
- 14. Michel de Montaigne: Malice sucks up the greater part of her own venom, and poisons herself.
- 15. Michel de Montaigne: It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one.
- 16. Michel de Montaigne: We have more poets thatnjudges and interpreters of poetry. It is easier to write ...
- 17. Michel de Montaigne: I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
- 18. Michel de Montaigne: Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a flea, yet he makes gods by the doze ...
- 19. Michel de Montaigne: When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss; his accusatio ...
- 20. Michel de Montaigne: In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and aff ...