Michel de Montaigne Quotes

“I hardly ever take a beast alive that I do not presently turn out again.”

― Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

topic:nature

“I find I am much prouder of the victory I obtain over myself, when, in the very ardour of dispute, I make myself submit to my adversary's force of reason, than I am pleased with the victory I obtain over him through his weakness.”

― Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

topic:reason weakness pride

“There is, peradventure, no more manifest vanity than to write of it so vainly.”

― Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

topic:writing vanity

“Man (in good earnest) is a marvellous vain, fickle, and unstable subject, and on whom it is very hard to form any certain and uniform judgment.”

― Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

topic:man judgement

“he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.”

― Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

topic:memory lie

“all the fruit I have reaped from my learning serves only to make me sensible how much I have to learn.”

― Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

topic:learning humility

“The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favours such a confidence.”

― Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

topic:virtue light

“Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.”

― Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

topic:madness

“He who will not give himself leisure to be thirsty can never find the true pleasure of drinking.”

― Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

“I had rather fashion my soul than furnish it.”

― Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

topic:soul

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