I aim here only at revealing myself, who will perhaps be different tomorrow, if I learn something new which changes me. Michel de Montaigne More Quotes by Michel de Montaigne More Quotes From Michel de Montaigne Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience. Michel de Montaigne losespersonshonor The concern that some women show at the absence of their husbands, does not arise from their not seeing them and being with them, but from their apprehension that their husbands are enjoying pleasures in which they do not participate, and which, from their being at a distance, they have not the power of interrupting. Michel de Montaigne distancemarriagehusband Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities. Michel de Montaigne donetakencities It is much more easy to accuse the one sex than to excuse the other. Michel de Montaigne excusemensex The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes. Michel de Montaigne reasonwarfall We endeavor more that men should speak of us, than how and what they speak, and it sufficeth us that our name run in men's mouths, in what manner soever. It stemma that to be known is in some sort to have life and continuance in other men's keeping. Michel de Montaigne namesrunningmen There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly. Michel de Montaigne obviousvanitywriting The thing I fear most is fear. Michel de Montaigne politicalfearinspirational The worthiest man to be known, and for a pattern to be presented to the world, he is the man of whom we have most certain knowledge. He hath been declared and enlightened by the most clear-seeing men that ever were; the testimonies we have of him are in faithfulness and sufficiency most admirable. Michel de Montaigne societymenworld Once you have decided to keep a certain pile, it is no longer yours; for you can't spend it. Michel de Montaigne propertydecidedcertain The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death. Michel de Montaigne labourlife-ishouse My trade and art is to live. Michel de Montaigne art-istradeart After mature deliberation of counsel, the good Queen to establish a rule and immutable example unto all posterity, for the moderation and required modesty in a lawful marriage, ordained the number of six times a day as a lawful, necessary and competent limit. Michel de Montaigne queensnumberssex 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 de Montaigne graffitiwallhouse I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better. Michel de Montaigne my-ownspeakmind It is a thorny undertaking, and more so than it seems, to follow a movement so wandering as that of our mind, to penetrate the opaque depths of its innermost folds, to pick out and immobilize the innumerable flutterings that agitate it. Michel de Montaigne movementdepthmind Thus we should beware of clinging to vulgar opinions, and judge things by reason's way, not by popular say. Michel de Montaigne opinionjudgingway Virtue can have naught to do with ease. . . . It craves a steep and thorny path. Michel de Montaigne virtuepathease The easy, gentle, and sloping path . . . is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road. Michel de Montaigne demandvirtuepath Life in itself is neither good nor evil, it is the place of good and evil, according to what you make it. Michel de Montaigne law-of-attractionevilpositive
