Though we may be learned by another's knowledge, we can never be wise but by our own experience. Michel de Montaigne More Quotes by Michel de Montaigne More Quotes From Michel de Montaigne The only good histories are those that have been written by the persons themselves who commanded in the affairs whereof they write. Michel de Montaigne good-history affair writing Lucius Arruntius killed himself, he said, to escape both the future and the past. Michel de Montaigne said past Lawyers and physicians are an ill provision for any country. Michel de Montaigne physicians lawyer country We ought to love temperance for itself, and in obedience to God who has commanded it and chastity; but what I am forced to by catarrhs, or owe to the stone, is neither chastity nor temperance. Michel de Montaigne temperance obedience stones When we have got it, we want something else. Michel de Montaigne want-something satisfaction want When we see a man with bad shoes, we say it is no wonder, if he is a shoemaker. Michel de Montaigne shoes wonder men Women are not altogether in the wrong when they refuse the rules of life prescribed to the World, for men only have established them and without their consent. Michel de Montaigne rules-of-life men world The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume, but a good stomach excels them all; to which nothing contributes more than industry and temperance. Michel de Montaigne stomach temperance volume How many we know who have fled the sweetness of a tranquil life in their homes, among the friends, to seek the horror of uninhabitable deserts; who have flung themselves into humiliation, degradation, and the contempt of the world, and have enjoyed these and even sought them out. Michel de Montaigne desert degradation home It is not my deeds that I write down, it is myself, my essence. Michel de Montaigne deeds essence writing Disappointment and feebleness imprint upon us a cowardly and valetudinarian virtue. Michel de Montaigne cowardly virtue disappointment From Obedience and submission comes all our virtues, and all sin is comes from self-opinion. Michel de Montaigne opinion sin self The dispersing and scattering our names into many mouths, we call making them more great. Michel de Montaigne mouths names fame We are more solicitous that men speak of us, than how they speak. Michel de Montaigne speak fame men Glory and repose are things that cannot possibly inhabit in one and the same place. Michel de Montaigne repose glory The shortest way to arrive at glory would be to do that for conscience which we do for glory. Michel de Montaigne glory would-be way God sends the cold according to the coat. Michel de Montaigne coats cold god There is some shadow of delight and delicacy which smiles upon and flatters us even in the very lap of melancholy. Michel de Montaigne lap shadow happiness What a man hates, he takes seriously. Michel de Montaigne hate men Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope, that in a mortal subject, and in a moment, makes nothing of usurping infinity, immensity, eternity, and of supplying its masters indigence, at its pleasure, with all things he can imagine or desire! Michel de Montaigne infinity hope desire
