More from Michel de Montaigne

  1. 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…
  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. Don't discuss yourself, for you are bound to lose; if you belittle yourself, you are believed; if you praise yourself, you are disbelieved.
  4. Confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
  5. Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimu…
  6. An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
  7. Experience teaches that a strong memory is generally joined to a weak judgment.
  8. Ambition is not a vice of little people.

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