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An orator of past times declared that his calling was to make small things appear to be grand.

An orator of past times declared that his calling was to make small things appear to be grand.

Michel de Montaigne
Past, Calling, Eloquence

Old age is a lease nature only signs as a particular favor, and it may be, to one, only in the space of two or three ages; and then with a pass to boot, to carry him through, all the traverses and difficulties she has strewed in the way of his long career.

Michel de Montaigne
Careers, Two, Space

I set forth notions that are human and my own, simply as human notions considered in themselves, not as determined and decreed by heavenly ordinance.

Michel de Montaigne
Determined, Notion, Heavenly
Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.234, Stanford University Press

In love, 'tis no other than frantic desire for that which flies from us.

Michel de Montaigne
Love, Desire, Frantic
Michel de Montaigne (2013). “Michel de Montaigne: Selected Essays”, p.28, Courier Corporation

No man divulges his revenue, or at least which way it comes in: but every one publishes his acquisitions.

Michel de Montaigne
Men, Acquisition, Way
Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.351, Delphi Classics

We easily enough confess in others an advantage of courage, strength, experience, activity, and beauty; but an advantage in judgment we yield to none.

Michel de Montaigne
Yield, Judgment, Enough
Michel de Montaigne “Annotated Essays of Michel de Montaigne with English Grammar Exercises: by Michel de Montaigne (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.

Michel de Montaigne
Life, Success, Lying
Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.901, Delphi Classics

Tis well for old age that it is always accompanied with want of perception, ignorance, and a facility of being deceived. For should we see how we are used and would not acquiesce, what would become of us?

Michel de Montaigne
Ignorance, Perception, Age
Michel de Montaigne, William Hazlitt (1860). “The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy”, p.206

Cowardice is the mother of cruelty.

Michel de Montaigne
Mother, Cowardice, Cruelty
Michel de Montaigne (2013). “The Complete Essays of Montaigne (107 annotated essays in 1 eBook + The Life of Montaigne + The Letters of Montaigne)”, p.683, e-artnow

It makes me hate accepting things that are probable when they are held up before me as infallibly true. I prefer these words which tone down and modify the hastiness of our propositions: "Perhaps, In some sort, Some, They say, I think," and the like.

Michel de Montaigne
Hate, Thinking, Down And
Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

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

Michel de Montaigne
Men, Opinion, Plague
Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, 1595.

There are truths on this side of the Pyrenees which are falsehoods on the other

Michel de Montaigne
Responsibility, Sides, Ethics

The honor we receive from those that fear us, is not honor; those respects are paid to royalty and not to me.

Michel de Montaigne
Respect, Honor, Royalty
Michel de Montaigne (2013). “Michel de Montaigne: Selected Essays”, p.55, Courier Corporation

Poetry reproduces an indefinable mood that is more amorous than love itself. Venus is not so beautiful all naked, alive, and panting, as she is here in Virgil.

Michel de Montaigne
Love, Beautiful, Poetry
Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.645, Stanford University Press

Habit is a second nature.

Michel de Montaigne
Habit
Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.772, Stanford University Press

Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and nearest at hand.

Michel de Montaigne
Cat, Hands, Pleasure
"The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy".

We call comeliness a mischance in the first respect, which belongs principally to the face.

Michel de Montaigne
Beauty, Faces, Firsts

Each man calls barbarism whatever is not his own practice; for indeed it seems we have no other test of truth and reason than the example and pattern of the opinions and customs of the country we live in

Michel de Montaigne
Country, Men, Practice
Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.152, Stanford University Press

It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one.

Michel de Montaigne
Writing, Easier, Indifferent
Michel de Montaigne, Charles Cotton (1711). “Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne: In Three Books with Marginal Notes and Quotations. And an Account of the Author's Life. With a Short Character of the Author and Translator,”, p.325

In my youth I studied for ostentation; later, a little to gain wisdom; now, for recreation; never for gain.

Michel de Montaigne
Education, Self, Littles
Michel de Montaigne (1976). “The Complete Essays of Montaigne”

Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end.

Michel de Montaigne
Philosophy, Ignorance, Progress
Michel de Montaigne (1866). “Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Journey Into Italy, and Letters”, p.355

Virtue cannot be followed but for herself, and if one sometimes borrows her mask to some other purpose, she presently pulls it away again.

Michel de Montaigne
Purpose, Sometimes, Virtue
Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.370, 谷月社

[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.

Michel de Montaigne
Marriage, Bird, Despair
Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.873, 谷月社

Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.

Michel de Montaigne
Stupid, Suffering, Resolution
Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.547, Delphi Classics

He that had never seen a river, imagined the first he met with to be the sea.

Michel de Montaigne
Ignorance, Sea, Rivers
Michel de Montaigne (1877). “Selected Essays”, p.2, Courier Corporation

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