Michel de Montaigne Quotes on Ethics
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All the opinions in the world point out that pleasure is our aim.
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Every other knowledge is harmful to he who does not have knowledge of goodness.
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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.
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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.
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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.