Man is quite insane. He wouldn't know how to create a maggot, and he creates Gods by the dozen.
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne Quotations
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God gives us our relatives- thank God we can choose our friends.
Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom.
I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.
Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
He who fears he will suffer, already suffers because of his fear.
To philosophize is to doubt.
How many things which served us yesterday as articles of faith, are fables for us today.
No one is exempt from talking nonsense the mistake is to do it solemnly.
The want of goods is easily repaired, but the poverty of the soul is irreparable.
Friendship is the highest degree of perfection in society.
Marriage is like a cage one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death.
A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
Riches, like glory or heath, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleased to lend them.
There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline.
Anyone who does not feel sufficiently strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
We are born to inquire into truth it belongs to a greater to possess it.
There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness.
The greatist thing in the world is for a man to know how to be himself.
I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
He who would teach men to die would at the same time teach them to live.
Children's playthings are not sports and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.