Michel de Montaigne Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity.”

“When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.”

“There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.”

“Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.”

“No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.”

“'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.”

“Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.”

“I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.”

“Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.”

“The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.”