Michel de Montaigne Quotes on Human nature
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Certes, c'est un subject merveilleusement vain, divers, et ondoyant, que l'homme. Il est malaise d'y fonder jugement constant et uniforme.
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The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold...The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbor creates a war betwixt princes.
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L'homme est bien insense. Il ne saurait forger un ciron, et forge des Dieux a douzaines.
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I find that the best goodness I have has some tincture of vice.
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There were never in the world two opinions alike, any more than two hairs or two grains. Their most universal quality is diversity.
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Few men have been admired by their own households.
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I have seen no more evident monstrosity and miracle in the world than myself.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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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.