Michel de Montaigne Quotes & Sayings (Page 7)

“Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.”

“Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.”

“It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.”

“Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.”

“An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.”

“I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.”

“How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!”

“Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.”

“Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.”

“We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.”