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I wish you good health--"No health to thee" replied the other-- Michel de Montaigne
Any argument if it be carried on with method
-- Michel de Montaigne
A man may govern himself well who cannot govern others so
-- Montaigne
Do not much blame them for making their advantage of our folly
-- Michel de Montaigne
Honour of valour consists in fighting, not in subduing
-- Michel de Montaigne
Socrates kept a confounded scolding wife
-- Montaigne
Because the people know so well how to obey
-- Michel de Montaigne
My mind is easily composed at distance
-- Montaigne
In those days, the tailor took measure of it
-- Montaigne
Take two sorts of grist out of the same sack
-- Michel de Montaigne
I have not a wit supple enough to evade a sudden question
-- Michel de Montaigne
No man more certain than another of to-morrow--Seneca
-- Michel de Montaigne
Few men have made a wife of a mistress, who have not repented it
-- Montaigne
Death is terrible to Cicero, coveted by Cato
-- Montaigne
What he did by nature and accident, he cannot do by design
-- Michel de Montaigne
They must become insensible and invisible to satisfy us
-- Montaigne
Philosophy looked upon as a vain and fantastic name
-- Michel de Montaigne
Whimpering is offensive to the living and vain to the dead
-- Montaigne
Obedience is never pure nor calm in him who reasons and disputes
-- Montaigne
Difference betwixt memory and understanding
-- Michel de Montaigne
Physician: pass through all the diseases he pretends to cure
-- Michel de Montaigne
The privilege of the mind to rescue itself from old age
-- Montaigne
Least end of a hair will serve to draw them into my discourse
-- Montaigne
They have yet touched nothing of that which is mine
-- Montaigne
Obstinacy is the sister of constancy
-- Michel de Montaigne
Go out of ourselves, because we know not how there to reside
-- Michel de Montaigne
Psalms of King David: promiscuous, indiscreet
-- Montaigne
Conscience makes us betray, accuse, and fight against ourselves
-- Montaigne
Denying all solicitation, both of hand and mind
-- Montaigne
No physic that has not something hurtful in it
-- Michel de Montaigne
There is more trouble in keeping money than in getting it
-- Montaigne
Thou diest because thou art living
-- Montaigne
Most men do not so much believe as they acquiesce and permit
-- Michel de Montaigne
Reasons often anticipate the effect
-- Montaigne
Titles of my chapters do not always comprehend the whole matter
-- Michel de Montaigne
Same folly as to be sorry we were not alive a hundred years ago
-- Montaigne
We only labour to stuff the memory
-- Montaigne
Liberty and laziness, the qualities most predominant in me
-- Michel de Montaigne
Made all medicinal conclusions largely give way to my pleasure
-- Montaigne
Two opinions alike, no more than two hairs
-- Montaigne
We set too much value upon ourselves
-- Montaigne
Tis not the number of men, but the number of good men
-- Michel de Montaigne
Consent, and complacency in giving a man's self up to melancholy
-- Montaigne
Tis more laudable to obey the bad than the good
-- Michel de Montaigne
With being too well I am about to die
-- Michel de Montaigne
Swell and puff up their souls, and their natural way of speaking
-- Michel de Montaigne
Long toleration begets habit; habit, consent and imitation
-- Montaigne
We neither see far forward nor far backward
-- Montaigne
Young and old die upon the same terms
-- Montaigne
Let it alone a little
-- Michel de Montaigne
Satisfied and pleased with and in themselves
-- Michel de Montaigne
Leave society when we can no longer add anything to it
-- Montaigne
Avoid all magnificences that will in a short time be forgotten
-- Michel de Montaigne
Plays of children are not performed in play
-- Michel de Montaigne
To make their private advantage at the public expense
-- Montaigne
Interdiction incites, and who are more eager, being forbidden
-- Montaigne
Old age: applaud the past and condemn the present
-- Montaigne
Evade this tormenting and unprofitable knowledge
-- Montaigne
Have more wherewith to defray my journey, than I have way to go
-- Michel de Montaigne
Wiser who only know what is needful for them to know
-- Michel de Montaigne
Turks have alms and hospitals for beasts
-- Montaigne
They (good women) are not by the dozen, as every one knows
-- Michel de Montaigne
Sparing and an husband of his knowledge
-- Montaigne
I do not judge opinions by years
-- Michel de Montaigne
Appetite to read more, than glutted with that we have
-- Montaigne
Wisdom is folly that does not accommodate itself to the common
-- Michel de Montaigne
Imagne the mighty will not abase themselves so much as to live
-- Montaigne
Do not to pray that all things may go as we would have them
-- Montaigne
Rather prating of another man's province than his own
-- Michel de Montaigne
Gently to bear the inconstancy of a lover
-- Montaigne
Option now of continuing in life or of completing the voyage
-- Montaigne
Let a man take which course he will," said he; "he will repent"
-- Michel de Montaigne
Restoring what has been lent us, wit usury and accession
-- Michel de Montaigne
They begin to teach us to live when we have almost done living
-- Montaigne
My fancy does not go by itself, as when my legs move it
-- Montaigne
Miracle: everything our reason cannot comprehend
-- Michel de Montaigne
Folly of gaping after future things
-- Michel de Montaigne
Woman who goes to bed to a man, must put off her modesty
-- Montaigne
Reverse of truth has a hundred thousand forms
-- Michel de Montaigne
Long sittings at table both trouble me and do me harm
-- Michel de Montaigne
Concluding no beauty can be greater than what they see
-- Montaigne
Fortune heaped up five or six such-like incidents
-- Michel de Montaigne
Love, full, lively, and sharp; a pleasure inflamed by difficulty
-- Michel de Montaigne
Rage compelled to excuse itself by a pretence of good-will
-- Michel de Montaigne
Give the ladies a cruel contempt of our natural furniture
-- Montaigne
Nothing is so firmly believed, as what we least know
-- Michel de Montaigne
Obstinacy and contention are common qualities
-- Montaigne
Who by their fondness of some fine sounding word
-- Montaigne
The mean is best
-- Michel de Montaigne
The storm is only begot by a concurrence of angers
-- Michel de Montaigne
Change only gives form to injustice and tyranny
-- Montaigne
Rather complain of ill-fortune than be ashamed of victory
-- Montaigne
Love them the less for our own faults
-- Montaigne
Expresses more contempt and condemnation than the other
-- Montaigne
Nothing presses so hard upon a state as innovation
-- Montaigne
Much better to offend him once than myself every day
-- Montaigne
Viscid melting kisses of youthful ardour in my wanton age
-- Michel de Montaigne
Being over-studious, we impair our health and spoil our humour
-- Michel de Montaigne
If it be a delicious medicine, take it
-- Montaigne
Live a quite contrary sort of life to what they prescribe others
-- Montaigne
College: a real house of correction of imprisoned youth
-- Montaigne
Look on death not only without astonishment but without care
-- Michel de Montaigne
Knot is not so sure that a man may not half suspect it will slip
-- Michel de Montaigne
Any one may deprive us of life; no one can deprive us of death
-- Montaigne
Indocile liberty of this member
-- Michel de Montaigne
Tis not the cause, but their interest, that inflames them
-- Michel de Montaigne
I write my book for few men and for few years
-- Montaigne
There is no reason that has not its contrary
-- Montaigne
What sort of wine he liked the best: "That of another"
-- Montaigne
What is more accidental than reputation?
-- Montaigne
Good to be certain and finite, and evil, infinite and uncertain
-- Michel de Montaigne
We cannot be bound beyond what we are able to perform
-- Michel de Montaigne
Setting too little a value upon others
-- Montaigne
A man may play the fool in everything else, but not in poetry
-- Michel de Montaigne
To whom no one is ill who can be good?
-- Montaigne
Affect words that are not of current use
-- Montaigne
Books have many charming qualities to such as know how to choose
-- Michel de Montaigne
Taught to be afraid of professing our ignorance
-- Montaigne
Profit made only at the expense of another
-- Montaigne
No doing more difficult than that not doing, nor more active
-- Montaigne
Knock you down with the authority of their experience
-- Montaigne
Tis for youth to subject itself to common opinions
-- Michel de Montaigne
Only secure harbour from the storms and tempests of life
-- Michel de Montaigne
No necessity upon a man to live in necessity
-- Montaigne
Extend their anger and hatred beyond the dispute in question
-- Michel de Montaigne
Greatest apprehensions, from things unseen, concealed
-- Michel de Montaigne
Dissentient and tumultuary drugs
-- Montaigne
He who provides for all, provides for nothing
-- Montaigne
Judge by justice, and choose men by reason
-- Michel de Montaigne
Best test of truth is the multitude of believers in a crowd
-- Montaigne
Abhorrence of the patient are necessary circumstances
-- Michel de Montaigne
Physician worse physicked
-- Montaigne
Richer than we think we are; but we are taught to borrow
-- Michel de Montaigne
I would as willingly be lucky as wise
-- Michel de Montaigne
Knowledge and truth may be in us without judgment
-- Michel de Montaigne
Have you ever found any who have been dissatisfied with dying?
-- Michel de Montaigne
Dearness is a good sauce to meat
-- Montaigne
Hobbes said that if he Had been at college as long as others--
-- Michel de Montaigne
Satisfaction of mind to have only one path to walk in
-- Michel de Montaigne
Prolong his life also prolonged and augmented his pain
-- Montaigne
To smell, though well, is to stink
-- Michel de Montaigne
So much are men enslaved to their miserable being
-- Michel de Montaigne
All think he has yet twenty good years to come
-- Michel de Montaigne
When I travel I have nothing to care for but myself
-- Michel de Montaigne
Suffer my judgment to be made captive by prepossession
-- Michel de Montaigne
Llaying the fault upon the patient, by such frivolous reasons
-- Montaigne
Never observed any great stability in my soul to resist passions
-- Michel de Montaigne
I love temperate and moderate natures
-- Montaigne
Did my discourses came only from my mouth or from my heart
-- Montaigne
I scorn to mend myself by halves
-- Michel de Montaigne
Titles being so dearly bought
-- Michel de Montaigne
She who only refuses, because 'tis forbidden, consents
-- Montaigne
For fear of the laws and report of men
-- Michel de Montaigne
Fortune will still be mistress of events
-- Michel de Montaigne
Agesilaus, what he thought most proper for boys to learn?
-- Montaigne
Being dead they were then by one day happier than he
-- Montaigne
Where the lion's skin is too short
-- Michel de Montaigne
How much easier is it not to enter in than it is to get out
-- Michel de Montaigne
Take my last leave of every place I depart from
-- Montaigne
My dog unseasonably importunes me to play
-- Michel de Montaigne
He may employ his passion, who can make no use of his reason
-- Michel de Montaigne
Pleasure of telling (a pleasure little inferior to that of doing
-- Montaigne
Diversity of medical arguments and opinions embraces all
-- Montaigne
A hundred more escape us than ever come to our knowledge
-- Montaigne
By resenting the lie we acquit ourselves of the fault
-- Michel de Montaigne
No other foundation or support than public abuse
-- Michel de Montaigne
Anything becomes foul when commended by the multitude
-- Montaigne
O Athenians, what this man says, I will do
-- Michel de Montaigne
I take hold of, as little glorious and exemplary as you will
-- Montaigne
Prudent man, when I imagine him in this posture
-- Michel de Montaigne
Think myself no longer worth my own care
-- Montaigne
I have lived longer by this one day than I should have done
-- Michel de Montaigne
Nature, who left us in such a state of imperfection
-- Michel de Montaigne
Nothing falls where all falls
-- Montaigne
To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one's self to die
-- Michel de Montaigne
Apprenticeship and a resemblance of death
-- Montaigne
Let it be permitted to the timid to hope
-- Michel de Montaigne
Lose what I have a particular care to lock safe up
-- Montaigne
We have lived enough for others
-- Michel de Montaigne
More brave men been lost in occasions of little moment
-- Montaigne
He felt a pleasure and delight in so noble an action
-- Michel de Montaigne
Fault will be theirs for having consulted me
-- Michel de Montaigne
Suffer those inconveniences which are not possibly to be avoided
-- Michel de Montaigne
Truth itself has not the privilege to be spoken at all times
-- Montaigne
Education ought to be carried on with a severe sweetness
-- Montaigne
Prepare ourselves against the preparations of death
-- Montaigne
Can neither keep nor enjoy anything with a good grace
-- Michel de Montaigne
Childish ignorance of many very ordinary things
-- Michel de Montaigne
And we suffer the ills of a long peace
-- Michel de Montaigne
Cleave to the side that stood most in need of her
-- Michel de Montaigne
Leaving nothing unsaid, how home and bitter soever
-- Montaigne
Recommendation of strangeness, rarity, and dear purchase
-- Michel de Montaigne
Folly satisfied with itself than any reason can reasonably be
-- Montaigne
The Babylonians carried their sick into the public square
-- Michel de Montaigne
Living well, which of all arts is the greatest
-- Michel de Montaigne
Friend, it is not now time to play with your nails
-- Montaigne
The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear
-- Michel de Montaigne
Plato said of the Egyptians, that they were all physicians
-- Michel de Montaigne
Vice of confining their belief to their own capacity
-- Michel de Montaigne
I am disgusted with the world I frequent
-- Montaigne
Interdict all gifts betwixt man and wife
-- Michel de Montaigne
How many and many times he has been mistaken in his own judgment
-- Michel de Montaigne
Rest satisfied, without desire of prolongation of life or name
-- Montaigne
Our fancy does what it will, both with itself and us
-- Michel de Montaigne
Valour whetted and enraged by mischance
-- Michel de Montaigne
Pinch the secret strings of our imperfections
-- Michel de Montaigne
Nearest to the opinions of those with whom they have to do
-- Montaigne
The good opinion of the vulgar is injurious
-- Michel de Montaigne
Have ever had a great respect for her I loved
-- Montaigne
Belief compared to the impression of a seal upon the soul
-- Michel de Montaigne
My books: from me hold that which I have not retained
-- Michel de Montaigne
Title of barbarism to everything that is not familiar
-- Michel de Montaigne
What a man says should be what he thinks
-- Michel de Montaigne
I bequeath to Areteus the maintenance of my mother
-- Montaigne
Sense: no one who is not contented with his share
-- Montaigne
A person's look is but a feeble warranty
-- Michel de Montaigne
Souls that are regular and strong of themselves are rare
-- Michel de Montaigne
Little knacks and frivolous subtleties
-- Michel de Montaigne
Art that could come to the knowledge of but few persons
-- Montaigne
Tis said of Epimenides, that he always prophesied backward
-- Michel de Montaigne
Incline the history to their own fancy
-- Michel de Montaigne
Both himself and his posterity declared ignoble, taxable
-- Michel de Montaigne
Each amongst you has made somebody cuckold
-- Montaigne
Ancient Romans kept their youth always standing at school
-- Michel de Montaigne
Curiosity of knowing things has been given to man for a scourge
-- Montaigne
And hate him so as you were one day to love him
-- Michel de Montaigne
Unjust to exact from me what I do not owe
-- Michel de Montaigne
Testimony of the truth from minds prepossessed by custom?
-- Michel de Montaigne
Fear is more importunate and insupportable than death itself
-- Michel de Montaigne
Let him be as wise as he will, after all he is but a man
-- Montaigne
Things seem greater by imagination than they are in effect
-- Michel de Montaigne
Rhetoric: an art to flatter and deceive
-- Michel de Montaigne
Every abridgment of a good book is a foolish abridgment
-- Michel de Montaigne
Give but the rind of my attention
-- Michel de Montaigne
Be on which side you will, you have as fair a game to play
-- Michel de Montaigne
Man must approach his wife with prudence and temperance
-- Michel de Montaigne
Books have not so much served me for instruction as exercise
-- Michel de Montaigne
We do not easily accept the medicine we understand
-- Michel de Montaigne
Malicious kind of justice
-- Michel de Montaigne
Our will is more obstinate by being opposed
-- Michel de Montaigne
He may well go a foot, they say, who leads his horse in his hand
-- Michel de Montaigne
Guess at our meaning under general and doubtful terms
-- Montaigne
The ignorant return from the combat full of joy and triumph
-- Montaigne
Who does not boast of some rare recipe
-- Michel de Montaigne
Pyrrho's hog
-- Montaigne
Opposition and contradiction entertain and nourish them
-- Michel de Montaigne
Having too good an opinion of our own worth
-- Michel de Montaigne
Man may say too much even upon the best subjects
-- Michel de Montaigne
No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness
-- Montaigne
Virtue and ambition, unfortunately, seldom lodge together
-- Michel de Montaigne
Proceed so long as there shall be ink and paper in the world
-- Michel de Montaigne
To be, not to seem
-- Michel de Montaigne
Crafty humility that springs from presumption
-- Michel de Montaigne
Nothing is more confident than a bad poet
-- Montaigne
Death has us every moment by the throat
-- Michel de Montaigne
Detest in others the defects which are more manifest in us
-- Michel de Montaigne
As if impatience were of itself a better remedy than patience
-- Michel de Montaigne
Authority to be dissected by the vain fancies of men
-- Montaigne
Tis impossible to deal fairly with a fool
-- Michel de Montaigne
Wise man to keep a curbing hand upon the impetus of friendship
-- Michel de Montaigne
Must of necessity walk in the steps of another
-- Michel de Montaigne
Nnone that less keep their promise(than physicians)
-- Michel de Montaigne
Flatterer in your old age or in your sickness
-- Michel de Montaigne
The Bible: the wicked and ignorant grow worse by it
-- Montaigne
Beast of company, as the ancient said, but not of the herd
-- Michel de Montaigne
What they ought to do when they come to be men
-- Montaigne
No way found to tranquillity that is good in common
-- Michel de Montaigne
Man may with less trouble adapt himself to entire abstinence
-- Michel de Montaigne
Take all things at the worst, and to resolve to bear that worst
-- Michel de Montaigne
He should discern in himself, as well as in others
-- Montaigne
cloak on one shoulder, my cap on one side, a stocking disordered
-- Michel de Montaigne
Who discern no riches but in pomp and show
-- Michel de Montaigne
Last death will kill but a half or a quarter of a man
-- Montaigne
Malice must be employed to correct this arrogant ignorance
-- Michel de Montaigne
Moderation is a virtue that gives more work than suffering
-- Montaigne
Excuse myself from knowing anything which enslaves me to others
-- Michel de Montaigne
What are become of all our brave philosophical precepts?
-- Michel de Montaigne
Puerile simplicities of our children
-- Michel de Montaigne
To give a currency to his little pittance of learning
-- Montaigne
I honour those most to whom I show the least honour
-- Michel de Montaigne
Drunkeness a true and certain trial of every one's nature
-- Michel de Montaigne
Addict thyself to the study of letters
-- Michel de Montaigne
Agitation has usurped the place of reason
-- Michel de Montaigne
This plodding occupation of bookes is as painfull as any other
-- Michel de Montaigne
Living is slavery if the liberty of dying be wanting
-- Montaigne
By suspecting them, have given them a title to do ill
-- Michel de Montaigne
Vast distinction betwixt devotion and conscience
-- Michel de Montaigne
We have more curiosity than capacity
-- Michel de Montaigne
Studies, to teach me to do, and not to write
-- Montaigne
Enough to do to comfort myself, without having to console others
-- Michel de Montaigne
Making their advantage of our folly, for most men do the same
-- Michel de Montaigne
The particular error first makes the public error
-- Michel de Montaigne
Sleep suffocates and suppresses the faculties of the soul
-- Michel de Montaigne
Willingly slip the collar of command upon any pretence whatever
-- Michel de Montaigne
Willingly give them leave to laugh after we are dead
-- Michel de Montaigne
Practical Jokes: Tis unhandsome to fight in play
-- Michel de Montaigne
Travel with not only a necessary, but a handsome equipage
-- Michel de Montaigne
Tis there she talks plain French
-- Michel de Montaigne
The mind grows costive and thick in growing old
-- Michel de Montaigne
Grief provokes itself
-- Michel de Montaigne
Events are a very poor testimony of our worth and parts
-- Michel de Montaigne
Man (must) know that he is his own
-- Michel de Montaigne
People conceiving they have right and title to be judges
-- Michel de Montaigne
Truly he, with a great effort will shortly say a mighty trifle
-- Montaigne
A lady could not boast of her chastity who was never tempted
-- Michel de Montaigne
I was too frightened to be ill
-- Michel de Montaigne
Always complaining is the way never to be lamented
-- Michel de Montaigne
There is no allurement like modesty, if it be not rude
-- Michel de Montaigne
That which cowardice itself has chosen for its refuge
-- Michel de Montaigne
Tis an exact life that maintains itself in due order in private
-- Michel de Montaigne
To what friend dare you intrust your griefs
-- Michel de Montaigne
Wont to give others their life, and not to receive it
-- Michel de Montaigne
Do thine own work, and know thyself
-- Michel de Montaigne
Endeavouring to be brief, I become obscure
-- Michel de Montaigne
Things grow familiar to men's minds by being often seen
-- Michel de Montaigne
Common consolation, discourages and softens me
-- Montaigne
Reserve a backshop, wholly our own and entirely free
-- Michel de Montaigne
Preferring the universal and common tie to all national ties
-- Michel de Montaigne
Gain to change an ill condition for one that is uncertain
-- Michel de Montaigne
Tis then no longer correction, but revenge
-- Michel de Montaigne
Culling out of several books the sentences that best please me
-- Michel de Montaigne
Twas a happy marriage betwixt a blind wife and a deaf husband
-- Montaigne
Things often appear greater to us at distance than near at hand
-- Michel de Montaigne
Condemnations have I seen more criminal than the crimes
-- Michel de Montaigne
All things have their seasons, even good ones
-- Michel de Montaigne
Physician's "help", which is very often an obstacle
-- Michel de Montaigne
Miserable kind of remedy, to owe one's health to one's disease!
-- Michel de Montaigne
Study makes me sensible how much I have to learn
-- Michel de Montaigne
better have none at all than to have them in so prodigious a num
-- Michel de Montaigne
Desires, that still increase as they are fulfilled
-- Michel de Montaigne
Desire of riches is more sharpened by their use than by the need
-- Michel de Montaigne
Justice als takes cognisance of those who glean after the reaper
-- Michel de Montaigne
Thucydides: which was the better wrestler
-- Montaigne
A well-governed stomach is a great part of liberty
-- Michel de Montaigne
Greedy humour of new and unknown things
-- Michel de Montaigne
Every day travels towards death; the last only arrives at it
-- Michel de Montaigne
As if anything were so common as ignorance
-- Michel de Montaigne
Well, and what if it had been death itself?
-- Michel de Montaigne
I had rather be old a brief time, than be old before old age
-- Michel de Montaigne
We are masters of nothing but the will
-- Montaigne
In everything else a man may keep some decorum
-- Michel de Montaigne
All I aim at is, to pass my time at my ease
-- Michel de Montaigne
Pretending to find out the cause of every accident
-- Michel de Montaigne
The consequence of common examples
-- Michel de Montaigne
I was always superstitiously afraid of giving offence
-- Michel de Montaigne
Fancy that others cannot believe otherwise than as he does
-- Michel de Montaigne
Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications
-- Montaigne
Ordinary method of cure is carried on at the expense of life
-- Michel de Montaigne
Revenge more wounds our children than it heals us
-- Michel de Montaigne
What need have they of anything but to live beloved and honoured
-- Michel de Montaigne
Too contemptible to be punished
-- Michel de Montaigne
Dignify our fopperies when we commit them to the press
-- Montaigne
An emperor, said he, "must die standing"
-- Michel de Montaigne
Death discharges us of all our obligations
-- Michel de Montaigne
Should first have mended their breeches
-- Michel de Montaigne
The action is commendable, not the man
-- Michel de Montaigne
Not certain to live till I came home
-- Montaigne
Only desire to become more wise, not more learned or eloquent
-- Michel de Montaigne
Laws do what they can, when they cannot do what they would
-- Michel de Montaigne
Life of Caesar has no greater example for us than our own
-- Montaigne
What we have not seen, we are forced to receive from other hands
-- Michel de Montaigne
Marriage
-- Michel de Montaigne
Caesar: he would be thought an excellent engineer to boot
-- Montaigne
Inclination to love one another at the first sight
-- Michel de Montaigne
I see no people so soon sick as those who take physic
-- Michel de Montaigne
Men make them (the rules) without their (women's) help
-- Montaigne
Our qualities have no title but in comparison
-- Michel de Montaigne
No one can be called happy till he is dead and buried
-- Michel de Montaigne
Custom, replied Plato, "is no little thing"
-- Montaigne
O my friends, there is no friend: Aristotle
-- Michel de Montaigne
Philosophy is that which instructs us to live
-- Michel de Montaigne
Not to instruct but to be instructed
-- Montaigne
Taught to consider sleep as a resemblance of death
-- Montaigne
Health depends upon the vanity and falsity of their promises
-- Michel de Montaigne
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age
-- Michel de Montaigne
Not conclude too much upon your mistress's inviolable chastity
-- Montaigne
Deceit maintains and supplies most men's employment
-- Michel de Montaigne
Establish this proposition by authority and huffing
-- Michel de Montaigne
Liberality at the expense of others
-- Michel de Montaigne
Wherever the mind is perplexed, it is in an entire disorder
-- Montaigne
Blemishes of the great naturally appear greater
-- Michel de Montaigne
Better at speaking than writing--Motion and action animate word
-- Michel de Montaigne
Laws keep up their credit, not for being just--but as laws
-- Michel de Montaigne
To know by rote, is no knowledge
-- Montaigne
Titillation of ill-natured pleasure in seeing others suffer
-- Michel de Montaigne
It is not for outward show that the soul is to play its part
-- Michel de Montaigne
A man must have courage to fear
-- Michel de Montaigne
Lower himself to the meanness of defending his innocence
-- Montaigne
That we may live, we cease to live
-- Michel de Montaigne
To forbear doing is often as generous as to do
-- Michel de Montaigne
Wretched and dangerous thing to depend upon others
-- Michel de Montaigne
The deadest deaths are the best
-- Montaigne
Light prognostics they give of themselves in their tender years
-- Michel de Montaigne
Fortune rules in all things
-- Michel de Montaigne
Impunity pass with us for justice
-- Michel de Montaigne
Archer that shoots over, misses as much as he that falls short
-- Montaigne
Fathers conceal their affection from their children
-- Michel de Montaigne
Unbecoming rudeness to carp at everything
-- Michel de Montaigne
Seeming anger, for the better governing of my house
-- Michel de Montaigne
Abominate that incidental repentance which old age brings
-- Montaigne
Those within (marriage) despair of getting out
-- Michel de Montaigne
Chiefly knew himself to be mortal by this act
-- Michel de Montaigne
In war not to drive an enemy to despair
-- Michel de Montaigne
How uncertain duration these accidental conveniences are
-- Montaigne
Women who paint, pounce, and plaster up their ruins
-- Michel de Montaigne
It is no hard matter to get children
-- Michel de Montaigne
Courtesy and good manners is a very necessary study
-- Montaigne
Insensible of the stroke when our youth dies in us
-- Michel de Montaigne
I always find superfluity superfluous
-- Montaigne
Disguise, by their abridgments and at their own choice
-- Michel de Montaigne
More ado to interpret interpretations
-- Montaigne
Reading those books, converse with the great and heroic souls
-- Michel de Montaigne
Good does not necessarily succeed evil; another evil may succeed
-- Montaigne
Every man thinks himself sufficiently intelligent
-- Michel de Montaigne
Haste trips up its own heels, fetters, and stops itself
-- Montaigne
Man must have a care not to do his master so great service
-- Michel de Montaigne
Doctors: more felicity and duration in their own lives?
-- Michel de Montaigne
They never loved them till dead
-- Montaigne
An ignorance that knowledge creates and begets
-- Michel de Montaigne
I am very willing to quit the government of my house
-- Michel de Montaigne
I do not willingly alight when I am once on horseback
-- Montaigne
I have nothing of my own that satisfies my judgment
-- Michel de Montaigne
Pay very strict usury who did not in due time pay the principal
-- Michel de Montaigne
Ashamed to lay out as much thought and study upon it
-- Montaigne
There is no recompense becomes virtue
-- Michel de Montaigne
Let him be satisfied with correcting himself
-- Michel de Montaigne
Dost thou, then, old man, collect food for others' ears?
-- Montaigne
Drugs being in its own nature an enemy to our health
-- Michel de Montaigne
Books I read over again, still smile upon me with fresh novelty
-- Michel de Montaigne
Ceremony forbids us to express by words things that are lawful
-- Michel de Montaigne
They better conquer us by flying
-- Michel de Montaigne
Order it so that your virtue may conquer your misfortune
-- Montaigne
Why do we not imitate the Roman architecture?
-- Michel de Montaigne
Fox, who found fault with what he could not obtain
-- Michel de Montaigne
Valour will cause a trembling in the limbs as well as fear
-- Michel de Montaigne
The cause of truth ought to be the common cause
-- Michel de Montaigne
Refusin to justify, excuse, or explain myself
-- Montaigne
How many things," said he, "I do not desire!"
-- Michel de Montaigne
He who lives everywhere, lives nowhere
-- Michel de Montaigne
Our justice presents to us but one hand
-- Montaigne
When time begins to wear things out of memory
-- Michel de Montaigne
Right of command appertains to the beautiful-Aristotle
-- Michel de Montaigne
That he could neither read nor swim
-- Montaigne
How infirm and decaying material this fabric of ours is
-- Michel de Montaigne
Venture it upon his neighbour, if he will let him
-- Michel de Montaigne
I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare
-- Montaigne
Suicide: a morsel that is to be swallowed without chewing
-- Michel de Montaigne
Plato will have nobody marry before thirty
-- Michel de Montaigne
Enslave our own contentment to the power of another?
-- Montaigne
We do not so much forsake vices as we change them
-- Michel de Montaigne
Would in this affair have a man a little play the servant
-- Michel de Montaigne
The best authors too much humble and discourage me
-- Montaigne
Subdividing these subtilties we teach men to increase their doub
-- Michel de Montaigne
Either tranquil life, or happy death
-- Michel de Montaigne
Intemperance is the pest of pleasure
-- Michel de Montaigne
Their souls seek repose in agitation
-- Michel de Montaigne
Transferring of money from the right owners to strangers
-- Montaigne
Man runs a very great hazard in their hands (of physicians)
-- Michel de Montaigne
Gentleman would play the fool to make a show of defence
-- Michel de Montaigne
Acquiesce and submit to truth
-- Michel de Montaigne
Marriage rejects the company and conditions of love
-- Montaigne
New World: sold it opinions and our arts at a very dear rate
-- Michel de Montaigne
We confess our ignorance in many things
-- Michel de Montaigne
I understand my men even by their silence and smiles
-- Montaigne
Help: no other effect than that of lengthening my suffering
-- Michel de Montaigne
All actions equally become and equally honour a wise man
-- Montaigne
Ladies are no sooner ours, than we are no more theirs
-- Montaigne
The most voluntary death is the finest
-- Michel de Montaigne
Folly to hazard that upon the uncertainty of augmenting it
-- Michel de Montaigne
Give these young wenches the things they long for
-- Montaigne
Stumble upon a truth amongst an infinite number of lies
-- Michel de Montaigne
It is better to die than to live miserable
-- Michel de Montaigne
People are willing to be gulled in what they desire
-- Montaigne
I am plain and heavy, and stick to the solid and the probable
-- Michel de Montaigne
One may be humble out of pride
-- Michel de Montaigne
Executions rather whet than dull the edge of vices
-- Montaigne
A man should abhor lawsuits as much as he may
-- Michel de Montaigne
Courageous in death, not because his soul is immortal--Socrates
-- Montaigne
Who escapes being talked of at the same rate
-- Michel de Montaigne
Carnal appetites only supported by use and exercise
-- Michel de Montaigne
If they hear no noise, they think men sleep
-- Michel de Montaigne
In this last scene of death, there is no more counterfeiting
-- Michel de Montaigne
I do not consider what it is now, but what it was then
-- Michel de Montaigne
Gross impostures of religions
-- Michel de Montaigne
By the gods," said he, "if I was not angry, I would execute you
-- Michel de Montaigne
Life should be cut off in the sound and living part
-- Michel de Montaigne
High time to die when there is more ill than good in living
-- Michel de Montaigne
Neither men nor their lives are measured by the ell
-- Michel de Montaigne
Tis so I melt and steal away from myself
-- Michel de Montaigne
Thou wilt not feel it long if thou feelest it too much
-- Michel de Montaigne
If I stand in need of anger and inflammation, I borrow it
-- Michel de Montaigne