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All Quotes by author - Michel de Montaigne

" Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face. "

" A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband. "

" A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears. "

" Ambition is not a vice of little people. "

" An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity. "

" Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience. "

" A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them. "

" A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself. "

" A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can. "

" Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity. "

" Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness. "

" Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations. "

" Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them. "

" Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition. "

" Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self. "

" Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows. "

" Few men have been admired of their familiars. "

" For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions. "

" Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky. "

" He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak. "

" How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime! "

" How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables. "

" I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie. "

" I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better. "

" If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I. "

" If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself. "

" If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves. "

" If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love. "

" If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it. "

" If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I. "

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