|
|
||
|
||
Browse Quotes by Topic:
Featured Authors:
|
Michel de Montaigne quotes (22) There are some defeats more triumphant than victories. Michel de Montaigne Category: Defeat A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband. Michel de Montaigne Category: Husband How many things served us yesterday for articles of faith which to-day are fables to us! Michel de Montaigne Category: Faith One may be humble out of pride. Michel de Montaigne Category: Humanitarian Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it. Michel de Montaigne Category: Memory There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time when he was an old man to learn music and dancing and thought it time well spent. Michel de Montaigne Category: Music All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly. Michel de Montaigne Category: False We have need of very little learning to have a good mind. Michel de Montaigne Category: Learn A wise man loses nothing if he but saves himself. Michel de Montaigne Category: Wise Who is not sure of his memory should not attempt lying. Michel de Montaigne Category: Lever Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know. Michel de Montaigne Category: Belief He who establishes his arguments by noise and command shows that reason is weak. Michel de Montaigne Category: Argument As an enemy is made more fierce by our flight so Pain grows proud to see us knuckle under it. She will surrender upon much better terms to those who make head against her. Michel de Montaigne Category: Enemy We can be knowledgeable with other mens knowledge But we cannot be wise with other mens wisdom. Michel de Montaigne Category: Knowledge All actions beyond the ordinary limits are subject to a sinister interpretation. Michel de Montaigne Category: Limits We do not correct the man we hang; we correct others by him. Michel de Montaigne Category: Capable In farewells we heat above ordinary our affections to the things we forego. Michel de Montaigne Category: Farewell Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... We sleeping wake and waking sleep. Michel de Montaigne Category: Unsorted There is no man so good who were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the law would not deserve hanging ten times in his life. Michel de Montaigne Category: Hanging As plants are suffocated and drowned with too much moisture and lamps with too much oil so is the active part of the understanding with too much study. Michel de Montaigne Category: Study Let us permit nature to have her way; she understands her Business better than we do. Michel de Montaigne Category: Nature Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a flea And yet he will be making gods by dozens. Michel de Montaigne Category: Religion |
|