Quotes by Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

French essayist and philosopher

Lived from: 1533 - 1592

Category: Philosophers | Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagFrance

Born: 10 march 1533 Died: 13 september 1592

  • He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
  • A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
  • He who has not a good memory should never take upon himself the trade of lying.
  • A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
  • For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
  • In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.
  • Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
  • Taking it all in all, I find it is more trouble to watch after money than to get it.
  • I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures.
  • The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes.
  • I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.
  • There is no course of life so weak and Scottish as that which is ordered by orders, method, and discipline.
  • Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm, and yet will make Gods by dozens.
  • Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.
  • Of all the benefits which virtue confers on us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.
  • We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
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  • Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.
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  • Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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  • Habit is second nature.
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  • A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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  • A man should ever be ready booted to take his journey.
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  • A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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  • After mature deliberation of counsel, the good Queen to establish a rule and immutable example unto all posterity, for the moderation and required modesty in a lawful marriage, ordained the number of six times a day as a lawful, necessary and competent limit.
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  • Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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  • All the world knows me in my book, and may book in me.
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  • Confidence in another person's virtue is no light evidence of your own.
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  • Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom.
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  • Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities.
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  • He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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  • He who has not a good memory should never take upon himself the trade of lying.
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  • He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
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  • Man is stark mad; he cannot make a flea, and yet he will be making gods by the dozens.
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  • Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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  • An unattempted lady could not vaunt of her chastity.
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  • But sure there is need of other remedies than dreaming, a weak contention of art against nature.
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  • Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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What are the most famous quotes from Michel Eyquem De Montaigne?

The two most famous quotes from Michel Eyquem De Montaigne are:

  • "Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health."
  • "Ambition is not a vice of little people."

When did Michel Eyquem De Montaigne live?

Michel Eyquem De Montaigne was born in 1533 and died in the year 1592.