Quotes by : Michel de Montaigne

Je hay entre autres vices, cruellement la cruauté, et par nature et par jugement, comme l'extreme de....

This emperor was arbiter of the whole world at nineteen, and yet would have a man to be thirty before....

There is no passion so much transports the sincerity of judgement as doth anger.

Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature....

He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.

There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened.

If you press me to say why I loved him I can say no more than it was because he was he and I was 1.....

Excellent memories are often coupled with feeble judgments.

I enjoy books as misers enjoy treasures, because I know I can enjoy them whenever I please.

Il n'est rien qui tente mes larmes que les larmes.