Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

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

Michel de Montaigne

Related Quotes:

" There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves. "

Michel de Montaigne

" In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum. "

Michel de Montaigne

" Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it. "

Michel de Montaigne

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

Michel de Montaigne

" The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre. "

Michel de Montaigne

" The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness. "

Michel de Montaigne

" I quote others only in order the better to express myself. "

Michel de Montaigne

" Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep. "

Michel de Montaigne

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Michel de Montaigne

" It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength. "

Michel de Montaigne

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Michel de Montaigne

" Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie. "

Michel de Montaigne

" An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity. "

Michel de Montaigne

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Michel de Montaigne

" Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee. "

Michel de Montaigne

" Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity. "

Michel de Montaigne

" Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think. "

Michel de Montaigne

" There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to. "

Michel de Montaigne

" 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. "

Michel de Montaigne

" We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom. "

Michel de Montaigne

" There is no passion so contagious as that of fear. "

Michel de Montaigne

" There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom. "

Michel de Montaigne

" No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port. "

Michel de Montaigne

" Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages. "

Michel de Montaigne

" I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it. "

Michel de Montaigne

" The thing I fear most is fear. "

Michel de Montaigne