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Quotations By Michel de Montaigne


Animals
When I play with my cat, who knows if I am not more of a pastime to her than she is to me?

Avarice
Truly, it is not want, but rather abundance, that breeds avarice.

Beliefs
Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.

Communication
I quote others only in order the better to express myself.

Death
Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Death
It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.

Death
If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Defeat
There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

Education
In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection; otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.

Goodness
Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness. -- Michel De Montaigne

Honesty
I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie. -- Michel De Montaigne

Humility
One may be humble out of pride.

Intelligence
'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.

Life
My trade and art is to live. -- Michel De Montaigne

Pain
As an enemy is made more fierce by our flight, so Pain grows proud to see us knuckle under it. She will surrender upon much better terms to those who make head against her. -- Michel De Montaigne

Religion
Hath God obliged himself not to exceed the bounds of our knowledge?

Success
Even on the most exalted throne in the world we areonly sitting on our own bottom.

Success
Ambition is not a vice of little people.

World
The world is but a perpetual see-saw.