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.

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.

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.