Michel de Montaigne Quotations

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The middle sort of historians (of which the most part are) spoil all; they will chew our meat for us.
	- Michel de Montaigne	more quotations on [History]

Some defeats [are] more triumphant than victories.
	- Michel de Montaigne	more quotations on [Random]

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
	- Michel de Montaigne	more quotations on [Education]

In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection; otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.
	- Michel de Montaigne	more quotations on [Education]

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
	- Michel de Montaigne	more quotations on [Marriage]

Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
	- Michel de Montaigne	more quotations on [Marriage]

The concern that some women show at the absence of their husbands, does not arise from their not seeing them and being with them, but from their apprehension that their husbands are enjoying pleasures in which they do not participate, and which, from their being at a distance, they have not the power of interrupting.
	- Michel de Montaigne	more quotations on [Marriage]

An unattempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
	- Michel de Montaigne	more quotations on [Perspective]

Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
	- Michel de Montaigne	more quotations on [Nature]

Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and apply myself to them, if they will not apply themselves to me.
	- Michel de Montaigne	more quotations on [Self-Control] [Integrity]

I will follow the right side even to the fire, but excluding the fire if I can.
	- Michel de Montaigne	more quotations on [Integrity]

There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thought under the scrutiny of the laws, he would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.
	- Michel de Montaigne	more quotations on [Integrity]

Saying is one thing, doing another. We must consider the sermon and the preacher distinctly and apart.
	- Michel de Montaigne	more quotations on [Hipocrisy]

I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them in so prodigious numbers as we have.
	- Michel de Montaigne	more quotations on [Justice]

The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it.
	- Michel de Montaigne	more quotations on [Happiness]

If falsehood, like truth, had but one face, we would be more on equal terms. For we would consider the contrary of what the liar said to be certain. But the opposite of truth has a hundred thousand faces and an infinite field.
	- Michel de Montaigne	more quotations on [Honesty]

It is not without good reason said, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.
	- Michel de Montaigne	more quotations on [Honesty]

When I play with my cat, who knows if I am not a pastime to her more than she is to me?
	- Michel de Montaigne	more quotations on [Cats]

Those who have compared our life to a dream were right.... We sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
	- Michel de Montaigne	more quotations on [Dreams]

Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.
	- Michel de Montaigne	more quotations on [Religion]

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