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French Moralist Inspirational Quotes (1561)

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Who ever saw a doctor use the prescription of his colleague without cutting out or adding something?
Michel de Montaigne
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I do not believe, from what I have been told about this people, that there is anything barbarous or savage about them, except that we all call barbarous anything that is contrary to our own habits.
Michel de Montaigne
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Pleasure and pain are the only springs of action in man, and always will be.
Claude Adrien Helvetius
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Not only do we know God through Jesus Christ, we only know ourselves through Jesus Christ.
Blaise Pascal
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There are truths on this side of the Pyrenees which are falsehoods on the other
Michel de Montaigne
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Men of all ages have the same inclinations, over which reason exercises no control. Thus, wherever men are found, there are follies, ay, and the same follies.
Jean de La Fontaine
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It is only reasonable to allow the administration of affairs to mothers before their children reach the age prescribed by law at which they themselves can be responsible. But that father would have reared them ill who could not hope that in their maturity they would have more wisdom and competence than his wife.
Michel de Montaigne
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Man is a masterpiece of creation . . .
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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There is no more expensive thing than a free gift.
Michel de Montaigne
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The most useful and honorable science and occupation for a woman is the science of housekeeping. I know some that are miserly, very few that are good managers.
Michel de Montaigne
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Diogenes was asked what wine he liked best and he answered as I would have done when he said, Somebody else's.
Michel de Montaigne
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Pride counterbalances all our miseries, for it either hides them, or, if it discloses them, boasts of that disclosure. Pride has such a thorough possession of us, even in the midst of our miseries and faults, that we are prepared to sacrifice life with joy, if it may but be talked of.
Blaise Pascal
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Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
Jean de la Bruyere
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Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm or a flea and yet will create Gods by the dozen!
Michel de Montaigne
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A pious man is one who would be an atheist if the king were.
Jean de la Bruyere
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There are some extraordinary fathers, who seem, during the whole course of their lives, to be giving their children reasons for being consoled at their death.
Jean de la Bruyere
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Wisdom has its excesses, and has no less need of moderation than folly.
Michel de Montaigne
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If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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If we let ourselves believe that man began with divine grace, that he forfeited this by sin, and that he can be redeemed only by divine grace through the crucified Christ, then we shall find peace of mind never granted to philosophers. He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace.
Blaise Pascal
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Fashion is a tyrant from which nothing frees us. We must suit ourselves to its fantastic tastes. But being compelled to live under its foolish laws, the wise man is never the first to follow, nor the last to keep it.
Blaise Pascal
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Man is neither angel nor beast.
Blaise Pascal
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Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.
Michel de Montaigne
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A man is never more serious than when he praise himself.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.
Blaise Pascal
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