Michel de Montaigne
View AuthorEven if I could make myself fearsome, I would prefer to make myself kind.
Michel de Montaigne
View AuthorEvery honorable person would rather lose honor than lose conscience.
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 AuthorHe who does not live in some way for others, also does not live for himself.
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 AuthorNobody fares badly for a long time without being at fault themselves.
Montesquieu
View AuthorI prefer to quickly agree with most people rather than listen to them.
Montesquieu
View AuthorIt seems that our life increases when we can place it in the memory of others: It is a new life that we acquire and find precious.
Montesquieu
View AuthorTo be truly great, one must be with the people, not above them.
Montesquieu
View AuthorFreedom consists of being able to do what one ought to do.
Montesquieu
View AuthorFreedom is the right to do what the laws allow. If a citizen had the right to do what they prohibit, it would no longer be freedom, as anyone else would have the same right.
Gustave Flaubert
View AuthorThe best of life is spent saying 'it's too soon,' and then it's 'too late'.