Quotes by
Michel de Montaigne |
1533-1592 , French thinker
French writer whose Essais (Essays) established a new literary form. In his Essays he wrote one of the most captivating and intimate self-portraits ever given, | 35 quotes | 5,036 visits |
Quotations
| • | Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness. 14 |
| • | He who fears he will suffer, already suffers because of his fear. 9 |
| • | On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom. 8 |
| • | Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition. 7 |
| • | Nothing prints more lively in our minds than something we wish to forget. 6 |
| • | Don't talk about yourself, for you are bound to lose; if you belittle yourself, you are believed; if you praise yourself, you are disbelieved. 6 |
| • | There are some defeats more triumphant than victories. 6 |
| • | Man is certainly crazy. He could not make a mite, and he makes gods by the dozen. 6 |
| • | Kings and philosophers shit -and so do ladies. 5 |
| • | No wind favors he who has no destined port. 5 |
| • | We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom. 5 |
| • | Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky. 5 |
| • | Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face. 5 |
| • | When I play with my cat, who knows if I am not a pastime to her more than she is to me? 5 |
| • | Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know. 5 |
| • | If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than it was because he was he, and I was I. 5 |
| • | A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband. 4 |
| • | There never was in the world two opinions alike, no more than two hairs or two grains; the most universal quality is diversity. 4 |
| • | There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thoughts under the scrutiny of the laws, he would not deserve hanging ten times in his life. 4 |
| • | He who does not give himself leisure to be thirsty cannot take pleasure in drinking. 4 |
| • | The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself. 4 |
| • | Things are not bad in themselves, but our cowardice makes them so. 4 |
| • | What do I know? Que sais-je? 4 |
| • | There is no more expensive thing than a free gift. 3 |
| • | Saying is one thing and doing is another. 3 |
| • | Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery. 3 |
| • | Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance. 3 |
| • | It is not death, it is dying that alarms me. 3 |
| • | Few men have been admired by their own domestics. 3 |
| • | It marriage happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out. 3 |
| • | Physicians have this advantage: the sun lights their success and the earth covers their failures. 3 |
| • | Man is forming thousands of ridiculous relations between himself and God. 3 |
| • | The thing I fear most is fear. 3 |
Non-English Quotes
| • | Que sais-je? What do I know? 3 |
| • | Mon métier et mon art, c'est vivre. My trade and my art is living. 3 |
