Montaigne, Michel De

“Apology For Raymond Sebond”


• When I play with my cat, who knows if I am not a pastime to her more than she is to me?
• Even in my own writings I cannot always recover the meaning of my former ideas; I know not what I me...
• Our speech has its weaknesses and its defects, like all the rest. Most of the occasions for the trou...
• I see this evident, that we willingly accord to piety only the services that flatter our passions.
“Apology for Raymond Sebond”


• Man is certainly crazy. He could not make a mite, and he makes gods by the dozen.
“A trait of some ambassadors”


• In order always to learn something from others (which is the finest school there can be), I observe ...
“By diverse means we arrive at the same end”


• Truly man is a marvelously vain, diverse, and undulating object. It is hard to found any constant an...
“Apology for Raimund Sebond”


• And truly Philosophy is but sophisticated poetry. Whence do those ancient writers derive all their a...
• What am I to choose? “Choose what you please, as long as you choose.” There you have a foolish answe...
• To judge the appearances we receive of things, we should need a judicatory instrument; to verify thi...
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