Michel Eyquem De Montaig quotes Born: 02/28/1553 Died: 09/13/1592 Country: france

• Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge ourselves with railing against it. (Michel Eyquem De Montaig) [revenge]
• The most manifest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness; her state is like that in the regions above the moon, always clear and serene. (Michel Eyquem De Montaig) [wisdom/state]
• It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others. (Michel Eyquem De Montaig) [brain]
• There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to. (Michel Eyquem De Montaig) [pleasure/mind]
• But sure there is need of other remedies than dreaming, a weak contention of art against nature. (Michel Eyquem De Montaig) [art/nature]
• I want death to find me planting my cabbage (Michel Eyquem De Montaig) [death/find]
• Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it. (Michel Eyquem De Montaig)
• The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them. (Michel Eyquem De Montaig) [ugly/find/ugly]
• It is not death that alarms me, but dying. (Michel Eyquem De Montaig) [death]
• There are some defeats more triumphant than victories. (Michel Eyquem De Montaig) [more]
• An unattempted lady could not vaunt of her chastity. (Michel Eyquem De Montaig) [lady/chastity]
• The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom. (Michel Eyquem De Montaig) [follow]
• Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged. (Michel Eyquem De Montaig) [fool]
• The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness. (Michel Eyquem De Montaig) [wisdom]
• Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations. (Michel Eyquem De Montaig) [death]
• Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky. (Michel Eyquem De Montaig) [fortune]
• It is not the want, but rather abundance that creates avarice. (Michel Eyquem De Montaig)
• Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself. (Michel Eyquem De Montaig)
• Habit is second nature. (Michel Eyquem De Montaig) [habit/nature]
• It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many. (Michel Eyquem De Montaig)
• If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself. (Michel Eyquem De Montaig)
• The thing I fear most is fear. (Michel Eyquem De Montaig) [thing/fear/fear]
• What harm cause not those huge draughts or pictures which wanton youth with chalk or coals draw in each passage, wall or stairs of our great houses, whence a cruel contempt of our natural store is bred in them? (Michel Eyquem De Montaig) [youth/contempt/store]
• No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged. (Michel Eyquem De Montaig) [life]
• I love those historians that are either very simple or most excellent. Such as are between both (which is the most common fashion), it is they that spoil all; they will needs chew our meat for us and take upon them a law to judge, and by consequence to square and incline the story according to their fantasy. (Michel Eyquem De Montaig) [love/fashion/willpower/needs]
• I do myself a greater injury in lying that I do him of whom I tell a lie. (Michel Eyquem De Montaig)
• Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them. (Michel Eyquem De Montaig) [love/instruction/behavior/words]
• He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying. (Michel Eyquem De Montaig) [memory]
• To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us.. (Michel Eyquem De Montaig)
• I know what I am fleeing from, but not what I am in search of. (Michel Eyquem De Montaig) [search]
• No wind favors him who has no destined port. (Michel Eyquem De Montaig)

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