Michel de Montaigne Quotes - Page 5

• We should rather examine, who is better learned, than who is more learned.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Should

  Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.333, Delphi Classics

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• And if nobody reads me, shall I have wasted my time, when I have beguiled so many idle hours with such pleasant and profitable reflections?

  Michel de Montaigne

  Book, Reading, Reflection

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• We have no participation in Being, because all human nature is ever midway between being born and dying, giving off only a vague image and shadow of itself, and a weak and uncertain opinion. And if you chance to fix your thoughts on trying to grasp its essence, it would be neither more nor less than if your tried to clutch water.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Thinking, Thoughtful, Essence

  Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

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• Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Ignorance, Men, Pillow

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• If your doctor does not think it good for you to sleep, to drink wine, or to eat of a particular dish, do not worry; I will find you another who will not agree with him.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Food, Wine, Sleep

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• Learning is a good medicine: but no medicine is powerful enough to preserve itself from taint and corruption independently of defects in the jar that it is kept in. One man sees clearly but does not see straight: consequently he sees what is good but fails to follow it; he sees knowledge and does not use it.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Powerful, Educational, Men

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

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• Every movement reveals us.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Movement

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.219, Stanford University Press

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• Every man has within himself the entire human condition

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Human Condition, Humans

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• Most pleasures embrace us but to strangle.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Pleasure, Embrace

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• Obstinacy and dogmatism are the surest signs of stupidity. Is there anything more confident, resolute, disdainful, grave and serious than an ass?

  Michel de Montaigne

  Stupidity, Serious, Ass

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• The least strained and most natural ways of the soul are the most beautiful; the best occupations are the least forced.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Happiness, Beautiful, Soul

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.622, Stanford University Press

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• We do not correct the man we hang; we correct others by him.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Punishment, He Man

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Essays of Montaigne”, p.1308, Xist Publishing

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• Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Happiness, Masterpiece, Glorious

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.14, Stanford University Press

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• Kings and philosophers defecate, and so do ladies.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Kings, Philosopher

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Essays”

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• We are more unhappy to see people ahead of us than happy to see people behind us.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Sad, People, Unhappy

  Michel de Montaigne (1976). “The Complete Essays of Montaigne”

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• I do not teach. I relate.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Education, Teaching, Teach

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• It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Dying, Alarms, Death And Dying

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book II, Ch. 13, 1595.

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• Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Funny, Wise, Humor

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book III, Ch. 8, 1595.

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• If others examined themselves attentively, as I do, they would find themselves, as I do, full of inanity and nonsense. Get rid of it I cannot without getting rid of myself.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Nonsense, Ifs

  Michel de Montaigne (2003). “The Complete Works: Essays, Travel Journal, Letters”, Everyman's Library

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• The good opinion of the vulgar is injurious.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Opinion, Popularity, Vulgar

  Michel de Montaigne (1877). “Selected Essays”, p.67, Courier Corporation

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• We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Suffering

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Essays of Montaigne”, p.1309, Xist Publishing

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• Thus we should beware of clinging to vulgar opinions, and judge things by reason's way, not by popular say.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Judging, Way, Opinion

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.150, Stanford University Press

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• The most evident token and apparent sign of true wisdom is a constant and unconstrained rejoicing.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Rejoice, Constant, True Wisdom

  Michel de Montaigne (1904). “Great Essays by Montaigne, Sidney, Milton, Cowley, Disraeli, Lamb, Irving, Lowell, Jefferies, and Others”

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• As soon as women become ours we are no longer theirs.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Possession

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• I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Respect, Acceptance, Self Reliance

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book II, Ch. 16, 1595.

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