Michel de Montaigne Quotes

Les montagnes bougent, c'est juste qu'elles bougent lentement.

Bir şey yapmadım ne demek? Yaşadınız ya! Bu sizin yalnız başlıca işiniz değil, en parlak, en şerefli işinizdir.

It happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.

The thing I fear most is fear.

Hath God obliged himself not to exceed the bounds of our knowledge?

In general I ask for books that make use of learning, not those that build it up.

Mon métier et mon art, c'est vivre.

The first law that ever God gave to man was a law of pure obedience; it was a commandment naked and simple, wherein man had nothing to inquire after, nor to dispute; forasmuch as to obey is the proper office of a rational soul, acknowledging a heavenly superior and benefactor.

The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.

A little of all things, but nothing of everything, after the French manner.

To distract myself from tiresome thoughts, I have only to resort to books; they easily draw my mind to themselves and away from other things.

J'accuse toute violence en l'education d'une ame tendre, qu'on dresse pour l'honneur, et la liberté.

There must then be something that is better, and that must be God. When you see a stately and stupendous edifice, though you do not know who is the owner of it, you would yet conclude it was not built for rats. And this divine structure, that we behold of the celestial palace, have we not reason to believe that it is the residence of some possessor, who is much greater than we?

There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thoughts under the scrutiny of the laws, he would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.

Whoever will be cured of ignorance, let him confess it.