6 Michel de Montaigne Quotes on Communication

Michel de Montaigne quotes on communication

18. I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.

59. 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 further intimacy and friendship, opening a door that we may derive instruction from the example of others, and at the same time enabling us to benefit them by our example, if there be anything in our character worthy of imitation.

73. He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.

96. Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.

133. 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.

135. Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest.