6 Michel de Montaigne Quotes on Ethics

Michel de Montaigne quotes on ethics

9. All the opinions in the world point out that pleasure is our aim.

16. Every other knowledge is harmful to he who does not have knowledge of goodness.

43. Not because Socrates said so, but because it is in truth my own disposition - and perchance to some excess - I look upon all men as my compatriots, and embrace a Pole as a Frenchman, making less account of the national than of the universal and common bond.

60. 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 dies.

129. There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.

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