Michel de Montaigne Quote

I only quote others in order to express my thoughts better.

Even on the highest throne, one sits on one's own bottom.

Michel de Montaigne

We care more that people talk about us than how they talk about us.

Michel de Montaigne

Even if I could make myself fearsome, I would prefer to make myself kind.

Michel de Montaigne

There is no present: what we call so is just the point of union between the future and the past.

Michel de Montaigne

Science is a scepter in certain hands, while in others it is only a plaything.

Michel de Montaigne

There is nothing I fear more than fear itself.

Michel de Montaigne

Every honorable person would rather lose honor than lose conscience.

Michel de Montaigne

Gold can do a lot, but beauty more.

Michel de Montaigne

Beauty 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

Of all the benefits that virtue brings us, one of the greatest is the contempt for death.

Michel de Montaigne

Whoever 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

He who does not live in some way for others, also does not live for himself.

Michel de Montaigne