The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre. Michel de Montaigne Read Quote
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. Michel de Montaigne Read Quote
Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them. Michel de Montaigne Read Quote
If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I. Michel de Montaigne Read Quote
There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state. Michel de Montaigne Read Quote
It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason. Michel de Montaigne Read Quote
We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany. Michel de Montaigne Read Quote
Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly. Michel de Montaigne Read Quote
