Michel de Montaigne Quotes About Morality

Quotes about: Morality

• The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from Custom.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Law, Morality, Tradition

  Michel de Montaigne (1859). “Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Journey Into Italy, and Letters, with Notes from All the Commentators, Biographical and Bibliographical Notices, Etc”, p.171

• Those sciences which govern the morals of mankind, such as Theology and Philosophy, make everything their concern: no activity is so private or so secret as to escape their attention or their jurisdiction.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Philosophy, Secret, Attention

  Michel de Montaigne (1991). “The essays of Michel de Montaigne”, Lane, Allen

• Life itself is neither a good nor an evil: life is where good or evil find a place, depending on how you make it for them.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Evil, Words Of Wisdom, Ethics

  Michel de Montaigne (1991). “The essays of Michel de Montaigne”, Lane, Allen

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