9 Michel de Montaigne Quotes on Human nature

Michel de Montaigne quotes on human nature

3. Certes, c'est un subject merveilleusement vain, divers, et ondoyant, que l'homme. Il est malaise d'y fonder jugement constant et uniforme.

29. 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.

30. L'homme est bien insense. Il ne saurait forger un ciron, et forge des Dieux a douzaines.

35. I find that the best goodness I have has some tincture of vice.

37. There were never in the world two opinions alike, any more than two hairs or two grains. Their most universal quality is diversity.

40. Few men have been admired by their own households.

46. I have seen no more evident monstrosity and miracle in the world than myself.

109. Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.

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.