Let every foot have its own shoe.
Michel de MontaigneTags: pathos
Our zeal works wonders, whenever it supports our inclination toward hatred, cruelty, ambition.
Michel de MontaigneTags: human-nature
Why do people respect the package rather than the man?
Michel de MontaigneTags: truth appearance
My business is only to keep myself in motion, whilst motion pleases me; I only walk for the walk's sake.
Michel de MontaigneTags: motion
Meditation is a powerful and full study as can effectually taste and employ themselves.
Michel de MontaigneTags: meditation
Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.
Michel de Montaignea good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de MontaigneCombien de choses nous servoyent hier d’articles de foy, qui nous sont fables aujourd’huy?
How many things served us yesterday for articles of faith, which today are fables for us?
Tags: superstition fables credulity
Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity.
Michel de MontaigneTags: honesty integrity confidence faith
I find I am much prouder of the victory I obtain over myself, when, in the very ardor of dispute, I make myself submit to my adversary’s force of reason, than I am pleased with the victory I obtain over him through his weakness.
Michel de MontaigneTags: reason victory pleasure weakness open-mind force pride argument ardor dispute adversary changed-mind
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