1,152 Quotes by Michel de Montaigne

We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.

And if nobody reads me, shall I have wasted my time, when I have beguiled so many idle hours with such pleasant and profitable reflections?

Man is quite insane. He wouldn?t know how to create a maggot, and he creates Gods by the dozen.

Laws are maintained in credit, not because they are essentially just, but because they are laws. It is the mystical foundation of their authority; they have none other.

Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities.

Poetry reproduces an indefinable mood that is more amorous than love itself. Venus is not so beautiful all naked, alive, and panting, as she is here in Virgil.

Women are more susceptible to pain than to pleasure.

Men of simple understanding, little inquisitive and little instructed, make good Christians.

~The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them ~