Michel De Montaigne: Trending quotes (page 5)

“A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.”

“The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to live with purpose.”

“The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold…The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbor creates a war betwixt princes.”

“Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness.”

“Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.”

“A man must be a little mad if he does not want to be even more stupid.”

“My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.”

“Why may not a goose say thus: "All the parts of the universe I have an interest in: the earth serves me to walk upon, the sun to light me; the stars have their influence upon me; I have such an advantage by the winds and such by the waters; there is nothing that yon heavenly roof looks upon so favourably as me. I am the darling of Nature! Is it not man that keeps and serves me?"”

“I will follow the good side right to the fire, but not into it if I can help it.”

“Man in sooth is a marvellous, vain, fickle, and unstable subject.”

“So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination... And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do no bring forth in the agitation.”

“I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.”

“I moreover affirm that our wisdom itself, and wisest consultations, for the most part commit themselves to the conduct of chance.”

“We seek and offer ourselves to be gulled.”

“I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.”

“Live as long as you please, you will strike nothing off the time you will have to spend dead.”

“In my opinion, every rich man is a miser.”

“Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest.”

“To an atheist all writings tend to atheism: he corrupts the most innocent matter with his own venom.”