Quote

Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.

Michel de Montaigne

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
Autobiographer
Essayist
French Moralist
Jurist
Philosopher
Poet Lawyer
Politician
Translator
Writer
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
Liberty
Criminals
Law
Gentle
Age
Educational
Make
Laws
Discipline
Dungeons
Youth
Strict
Ones
Criminal
Leave
Ages

More quotes by Michel de Montaigne

Image
Who ever saw a doctor use the prescription of his colleague without cutting out or adding something?
Michel de Montaigne
Image
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.
Michel de Montaigne
Image
The soul that has no established aim loses itself
Michel de Montaigne
Image
Rejoice in the things that are present all else is beyond thee.
Michel de Montaigne
Image
I aim here only at revealing myself, who will perhaps be different tomorrow, if I learn something new which changes me.
Michel de Montaigne
Image
In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.
Michel de Montaigne
Image
I am one of those who hold that poetry is never so blithe as in a wanton and irregular subject.
Michel de Montaigne
Image
We judge a horse not only by its pace on a racecourse, but also by its walk, nay, when resting in its stable.
Michel de Montaigne
Image
There is nothing useless in nature not even uselessness itself
Michel de Montaigne
Image
I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
Michel de Montaigne
Image
No pleasure is fully delightful without communications, and no delight absolute except imparted.
Michel de Montaigne
Image
Seneca's virtue shows forth so live and vigorous in his writings, and the defense is so clear there against some of these imputations, as that of his wealth and excessive spending, that I would not believe any testimony to the contrary.
Michel de Montaigne
Image
Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
Michel de Montaigne
Image
How many quarrels, and how important, has the doubt as to the meaning of this syllable Hoc produced for the world!
Michel de Montaigne
Image
There is no so wretched and coarse a soul wherein some particular faculty is not seen to shine.
Michel de Montaigne
Image
To smell, though well, is to stink.
Michel de Montaigne
Image
A man must either imitate the vicious or hate them.
Michel de Montaigne
Image
Physicians have this advantage: the sun lights their success and the earth covers their failures.
Michel de Montaigne
Image
Courtesy is a science of the highest importance. It is...opening a door that we may derive instruction from the example of others, and at the same time enabling us to benefit them by our example, if there be anything in our character worthy of imitation.
Michel de Montaigne
Image
There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
Michel de Montaigne