Michel de Montaigne Quotes

Difficulty is a coin which the learned conjure with so as not to reveal the vanity of their studies and which human stupidity is keen to accept in payment

I never rebel so much against France as not to regard Paris with a friendly eye; she has had my heart since my childhood.... I love her tenderly, even to her warts and her spots. I am French only by this great city: the glory of France, and one of the noblest ornaments of the world.

I quote others in order to better express my own self.

I walk firmer and more secure up hill than down.

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.

The word is half his that speaks and half his that hears it.

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

When I religiously confess myself to myself I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice.