1,152 Quotes by Michel de Montaigne

A person is bound to lose when he talks about himself; if he belittles himself, he is believed; if he praises himself, he isn’t believed.

The greater part of the world’s troubles are due to questions of grammar.

Honesty is a question of right and wrong, not a matter of policy.

Children’s games are hardly games. Children are never more serious than when they play.

The confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.

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.

Don’t discuss yourself, for you are bound to lose; if you belittle yourself, you are believed; if you praise yourself, you are disbelieved.

Happiness is a singular incentive to mediocrity.

Each man calls barbarism whatever is not his own practice; for indeed it seems we have no other test of truth and reason than the example and pattern of the opinions and customs of the country we live in.