Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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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.
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There are defeats more triumphant than victories.
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There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God.
[Prayer]
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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
[Victory]
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There have been many laws made by men which swerve from honesty, reason, and the dictates of nature. By the law of arms he is degraded from all honor who puts up with an affront; and by the civil law, he that takes vengeance for it, incurs a capital punishment; he that seeks redress by law for an affront is disgraced; and he that seeks redress not in this way is punished by the laws.
[Law]
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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
[Family]
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method and discipline.
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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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There is no greater enemy to those who would please than expectation.
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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.
[Innocence]
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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There is no passion so much transports the sincerity of judgement as doth anger.
[Anger]
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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.
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There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
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There is nothing so little to be expected or hoped for from this many headed monster, when incensed, as humanity and good nature; it is much more capable of alarm and fear.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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