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French Moralist Inspirational Quotes (1561)

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Fie on the eloquence that leaves us craving itself, not things!
Michel de Montaigne
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Custom determines what is agreeable.
Blaise Pascal
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I am myself the matter of my book.
Michel de Montaigne
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The mind has its arrangement it proceeds from principles to demonstrations. The heart has a different mode of proceeding.
Blaise Pascal
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Long life, and short, are by death made all one for there is no long, nor short, to things that are no more.
Michel de Montaigne
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A liar would be brave toward God, while he is a coward toward men for a lie faces God, and shrinks from man.
Michel de Montaigne
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For a woman to be at once a coquette and a bigot is more than the humblest of husbands can bear she should mercifully choose between the two.
Jean de la Bruyere
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My errors are by now natural and incorrigible but the good that worthy men do the public by making themselves imitable, I shall perhaps do by making myself evitable.
Michel de Montaigne
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A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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We seek and offer ourselves to be gulled.
Michel de Montaigne
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Everything that is written merely to please the author is worthless.
Blaise Pascal
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The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
Blaise Pascal
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I admire the assurance and confidence everyone has in himself, whereas there is hardly anything I am sure I know or that I dare give my word I can do.
Michel de Montaigne
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Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.
Jean de La Fontaine
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Imagination cannot make fools wise, but it makes them happy, as against reason, which only makes its friends wretched: one covers them with glory, the other with shame.
Blaise Pascal
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It is an absolute perfection and virtually divine to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
Michel de Montaigne
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Not because Socrates said so, but because it is in truth my own disposition — and perchance to some excess — I look upon all men as my compatriots, and embrace a Pole as a Frenchman, making less account of the national than of the universal and common bond.
Michel de Montaigne
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The pleasure a man of honor enjoys in the consciousness of having performed his duty is a reward he pays himself for all his pains.
Jean de la Bruyere
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No soul of high estate can take pleasure in slander. It betrays a weakness.
Blaise Pascal
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I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that tied them together.
Michel de Montaigne
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Description of man: dependence, longing for independence, need.
Blaise Pascal
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Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent.
Antoine Rivarol
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Ambition is, of all other, the most contrary humor to solitude and glory and repose are so inconsistent that they cannot possibly inhabit one and the same place and for so much as I understand, those have only their arms and legs disengaged from the crowd, their mind and intention remain engaged behind more than ever.
Michel de Montaigne
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As far as I am concerned, no road that would lead us to health is either arduous or expensive.
Michel de Montaigne
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