Quotes
Quotes - Montaigne
There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.
Saturninus said, "Comrades, you have lost a good captain to make him an ill general."
A little folly is desirable in him that will not be guilty of stupidity.
Habit is a second nature.
We seek and offer ourselves to be gulled.
I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
Men are most apt to believe what they least understand.
I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that ties them together.
Amongst so many borrowed things, I am glad if I can steal one, disguising and altering it for some new service.
I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them in so prodigious numbers as we have.
There is more ado to interpret interpretations than to interpret the things, and more books upon books than upon all other subjects; we do nothing but comment upon one another.
For truth itself has not the privilege to be spoken at all times and in all sorts.
The diversity of physical arguments and opinions embraces all sorts of methods.
Let us a little permit Nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we.
I have ever loved to repose myself, whether sitting or lying, with my heels as high or higher than my head.
I, who have so much and so universally adored this [greek], "excellent mediocrity," of ancient times, and who have concluded the most moderate measure the most perfect, shall I pretend to an unreasonable and prodigious old age?
To philosophize is to doubt.
There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline.
When I play with my cat, how do I know that she is not passing time with me rather than I with her?
There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline.
Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.
O senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm and yet will make Gods by the dozen!
It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
Man is certainly stark mad: he cannot make a flea, yet he makes gods by the dozens.
We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
