Michel de Montaigne: Citations en anglais (Page 3)

“The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation.”

“I do not believe, from what I have been told about this people, that there is anything barbarous or savage about them, except that we all call barbarous anything that is contrary to our own habits.”

“There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened.”

“Every man has within himself the entire human condition”

“Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head”

“Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.”

“Que sçais-je?" (What do I know?)”

“He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.”

“There is no knowledge so hard to acquire as the knowledge of how to live this life well and naturally.”

“Every movement reveals us.”

“I know that the arms of friendship are long enough to reach from the one end of the world to the other”

“No-one is exempt from speaking nonsense – the only misfortune is to do it solemnly.”

“Why do people respect the package rather than the man?”

“No wind favors he who has no destined port.”

“I have seen no more evident monstrosity and miracle in the world than myself.”

“No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.”

“I listen with attention to the judgment of all men;
but so far as I can remember,
I have followed none but my own.”

“There is as much difference between us and ourselves as between us and others.”

“If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.”