Michel de Montaigne Quotes & Sayings (Page 11)

“The world is but a perpetual see-saw.”

“There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.”

“If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.”

“The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.”

“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.”

“I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.”

“If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.”