1,152 Quotes by Michel de Montaigne

Would I fortify myself against the fear of death, it must be at the expense of Seneca: would I extract consolation for myself or my friend, I must borrow it from Cicero.  I might have found it in myself, had I been trained to make use of my own reason.  I do not like this relative and mendicant understanding; for though we could become learned by other men's learning, a man can never be wise but by his own wisdom.

Ne garip ... insanı öldürmek için gün ışığında geniş meydanlar ararız ama onu yaratmak için karanlık köşelere gizleniriz. Şu insan ne korkunç bir hayvan ki kendi zevklerini başının belası sayıyor. Bizi yaratan işi hayvanlık saymaktan daha büyük hayvanlık mı olur?

If I am pressed to say why I loved him, I feel it can only be explained by replying: 'Because it was he; because it was me.

Truth for us nowadays is not what is, but what others can be brought to accept: just as we call money not only legal tender but any counterfeit coins in circulation.

მე არ მსურს, რომ მხოლოდ მასწავლებელი წყვეტდეს ყველა­ფერს, მხოლოდ ის საუბრობ­დეს _ მოძღ­ვარ­მა თავის შეგირდსაც უნდა მო­უსმინოს

Никой добродетел не взема за помощник лъжата.

No wonder, said an Ancient, that chance has so much power over us, since it is by chance that we live.

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

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