Quotes
Quotes - Montaigne
Once you have decided to keep a certain pile, it is no longer yours; for you can't spend it.
The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes.
All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly.
I quote others only in order the better to express myself. â¢Michel De Montaigne Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said. â¢Jean Rostand I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.
Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
How many worthy men have we seen survive their own reputations!
'Tis so much to be a king, that he only is so by being so. - Michael Eyquen de Montaigne,
Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
When we see a man with bad shoes, we say it is no wonder, if he is a shoemaker. [Fr., Quand nous veoyons un homme mal chausse, nous disons que ce n'est pas merveille, s'il est chausstier.]
To each foot its own shoe. [Fr., A chaque pied son soulier.]
Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom.
He who is not sure of his memory, should not undertake the trade of lying.
There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
Of all the benefits which virtue confers on us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.
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.
Every one's true worship was that which he found in use in the place where he chanced to be.
