Michel de Montaigne
View AuthorBeauty is a great recommendation in human commerce, and there is no one so barbarous or rude that does not feel hurt by its sweetness.
Michel de Montaigne
View AuthorOf all the benefits that virtue brings us, one of the greatest is the contempt for death.
Michel de Montaigne
View AuthorWhoever wished that man did not know pain, would at the same time avoid the knowledge of pleasure and reduce man himself to nothing.
Michel de Montaigne
View AuthorHe who does not live in some way for others, also does not live for himself.
Michel de Montaigne
View AuthorWe are very concerned with being good people according to God's law; we would not know how to be so according to ourselves.
Michel de Montaigne
View AuthorThe curiosity to know things has been given to men as a punishment
Michel de Montaigne
View AuthorOur desire despises and abandons what we have in order to chase after what we do not have.
Michel de Montaigne
View AuthorLife is not in itself neither good nor bad, but the place of good or bad, depending on whether man practices one or the other.
Michel de Montaigne
View AuthorThe one who, while angry, imposes a punishment, does not correct, but seeks revenge.
Michel de Montaigne
View AuthorNobody fares badly for a long time without being at fault themselves.
Michel de Montaigne
View AuthorMy life has been full of terrible misfortunes, most of which never happened.
Michel de Montaigne
View AuthorI reject all violence in the education of a tender soul being trained for honor and freedom.