EssayI find that the best goodness I have has some tincture of vice.Michel de MontaigneEssays · 1580★ 5.5
EssayTruly man is a marvelously vain, diverse, and undulating object. It is hard to found any constant and uniform judgement on him.Michel de MontaigneEssays · 1580★ 5.4
EssayIt happens as with the cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.Michel de MontaigneEssays · 1580★ 5.4
And while I at length debate and beate the bush, There shall steppe in other men and catche the burdes.John HeywoodProverbs (Heywood) · 1580★ 5.3
EssayFor truth itself does not have the privilege to be employed at any time and in every way; its use, noble as it is, has its circumscriptions and limits.Michel de MontaigneEssays · 1580★ 5.3
EssayLet us give Nature a chance; she knows her business better than we do.Michel de MontaigneEssays · 1580★ 4.6
EssayThe easy, gentle and sloping path…is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road.Michel de MontaigneEssays · 1580★ 4.5
EssayThe greatest thing in the world is to know how to be oneself.Michel de MontaigneEssays · 1580★ 3.8
EssayVirtue shuns ease as a companion... It demands a rough and thorny path.Michel de MontaigneEssays · 1580★ 3.8