Michel de Montaigne Quotes on Morality
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Every other knowledge is harmful to he who does not have knowledge of goodness.
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I find that the best goodness I have has some tincture of vice.
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There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thoughts under the scrutiny of the laws, he would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.
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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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Confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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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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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.