Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
There is no so wretched and coarse a soul wherein some particular faculty is not seen to shine.
Michel de Montaigne
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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
Shine
Faculty
Shining
Genius
Talent
Particular
Coarse
Seen
Wherein
Soul
Wretched
More quotes by Michel de Montaigne
A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
Michel de Montaigne
No man divulges his revenue, or at least which way it comes in: but every one publishes his acquisitions.
Michel de Montaigne
Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.
Michel de Montaigne
Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end.
Michel de Montaigne
Order a purge for your brain, it will there be much better employed than upon your stomach.
Michel de Montaigne
I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
Michel de Montaigne
There is nothing which so poisons princes as flattery, nor anything whereby wicked men more easily obtain credit and favor with them.
Michel de Montaigne
How many quarrels, and how important, has the doubt as to the meaning of this syllable Hoc produced for the world!
Michel de Montaigne
There is a certain amount of purpose, acquiescence, and satisfaction in nursing one's melancholy.
Michel de Montaigne
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
I never met a man who thought his thinking was faulty.
Michel de Montaigne
Painting myself for others, I have painted my inward self with colors clearer than my original ones. I have no more made my book than my book has made me--a book consubstantial with its author, concerned with my own self, an integral part of my life not concerned with some third-hand, extraneous purpose, like all other books.
Michel de Montaigne
The world is but a school of inquisition it is not who shall enter the ring, but who shall run the best courses.
Michel de Montaigne
There is a certain consideration, and a general duty of humanity, that binds us not only to the animals, which have life and feeling, but even to the trees and plants. We owe justice to people, and kindness and benevolence to all other creatures who may be susceptible of it. There is some intercourse between them and us, and some mutual obligation.
Michel de Montaigne
The most unhappy and frail creatures are men and yet they are the proudest.
Michel de Montaigne
Let us a little permit nature to take her own way she better understands her own affairs than we.
Michel de Montaigne
We have power over nothing except our will.
Michel de Montaigne
Time steals away without any inconvenience.
Michel de Montaigne
There is nothing useless in nature not even uselessness itself
Michel de Montaigne
When we have got it, we want something else.
Michel de Montaigne
