1,152 Quotes by Michel de Montaigne

What a prodigious conscience must that be that can be at quiet within itself whilst it harbors under thesame roof, with so agreeing and so calm a society, both the crime and the judge?

We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.

My business is only to keep myself in motion, whilst motion pleases me; I only walk for the walk's sake.

The time is now proper for us to reform backward; more by dissenting than by agreeing; by differing more than by consent.

I have never seen a greater monster or miracle than myself.

So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination... And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do not bring forth in the agitation.

Not being able to govern events, I govern myself

To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.

El amor no es más que el deseo furioso de algo que huye de nosotros...