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Famous Quotes Home >> Authors Starting with M >> Quotes By Michel Eyquem de Montaigne |
| Quote #1: | "Riches, like glory or heath, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleased to lend them." |
| Quote #2: | "He who fears he will suffer, already suffers because of his fear." |
| Quote #3: | "We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom." |
| Quote #4: | "There never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains the most universal quality is diversity." |
| Quote #5: | "No one is exempt from talking nonsense the mistake is to do it solemnly." |
| Quote #6: | "I quote others only in order the better to express myself." |
| Quote #7: | "The greatist thing in the world is for a man to know how to be himself." |
| Quote #8: | "To philosophize is to doubt." |
| Quote #9: | "God gives us our relatives- thank God we can choose our friends." |
| Quote #10: | "He who would teach men to die would at the same time teach them to live." |
| Quote #11: | "Anyone who does not feel sufficiently strong in memory should not meddle with lying." |
| Quote #12: | "It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness." |
| Quote #13: | "To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death." |
| Quote #14: | "We are born to inquire into truth it belongs to a greater to possess it." |
| Quote #15: | "I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older." |
| Quote #16: | "Friendship is the highest degree of perfection in society." |
| Quote #17: | "How many things which served us yesterday as articles of faith, are fables for us today." |
| Quote #18: | "The finest lives, in my opinion, are those who rank in the common model, and with the human race, but without miracle, without extravagance." |
| Quote #19: | "If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer because it was he, because it was I." |
| Quote #20: | "There are some defeats more triumphant than victories." |
| Quote #21: | "There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline." |
| Quote #22: | "Man is quite insane. He wouldn't know how to create a maggot, and he creates Gods by the dozen." |
| Quote #23: | "Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom." |
| Quote #24: | "A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can." |
| Quote #25: | "Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul." |
| Quote #26: | "Marriage is like a cage one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out." |
| Quote #27: | "Children's playthings are not sports and should be deemed as their most serious actions." |
| Quote #28: | "The want of goods is easily repaired, but the poverty of the soul is irreparable." |
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