Michel de Montaigne
View AuthorThere is no present: what we call so is just the point of union between the future and the past.
Michel de Montaigne
View AuthorScience is a scepter in certain hands, while in others it is only a plaything.
Michel de Montaigne
View AuthorThere is nothing I fear more than fear itself.
Michel de Montaigne
View AuthorEvery honorable person would rather lose honor than lose conscience.
Michel de Montaigne
View AuthorGold can do a lot, but beauty more.
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.