More from Michel de Montaigne

  1. Confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
  2. Courtesy is a science of the highest importance. It is, like grace and beauty in the body, which charm at first sight, and lead on to furth…
  3. An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
  4. Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet- the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which die…
  5. Ambition is not a vice of little people.
  6. Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
  7. Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
  8. Don't discuss yourself, for you are bound to lose; if you belittle yourself, you are believed; if you praise yourself, you are disbelieved.

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