7 Michel de Montaigne Quotes on Humility

Michel de Montaigne quotes on humility

1. Que sais-je?

28. When I play with my cat, who knows if I am not a pastime to her more than she is to me?

34. A man may be humble through vainglory.

49. Si, avons nous beau monter sur des echasses, car sur des echasses encore faut-il marcher de nos jambes. Et au plus eleve trone du monde, si ne sommes assis que sur notre cul.

50. Let us give Nature a chance; she knows her business better than we do.

63. Don't discuss yourself, for you are bound to lose; if you belittle yourself, you are believed; if you praise yourself, you are disbelieved.

128. There is a plague on Man, the opinion that he knows something.