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
EssayWhen I play with my cat, who knows whether I do not make her more sport than she makes me?Michel de MontaigneEssays · 1580★ 3.7
EssayThere were never in the world two opinions alike, any more than two hairs or two grains. Their most universal quality is diversity.Michel de MontaigneEssays · 1580★ 3.7
EssayIf I am pressed to say why I loved him, I feel it can only be explained by replying: "Because it was he; because it was me."Michel de MontaigneEssays · 1580★ 3.7
EssayMan, a subject which is marvelously vain, diverse, and like the waves of the sea.Michel de MontaigneEssays · 1580★ 3.7
EssayIt should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.Michel de MontaigneEssays · 1580★ 3.7
EssayNot because Socrates said so, but because it is in truth my own disposition-and perchance to some excess-I look upon all men as my compatriots, and embrace a Pole as a Frenchman, making less account of the national than of the universal and common bond.Michel de MontaigneEssays · 1580★ 3.6
EssayBees ransack flowers here and there, but then they make honey, which is entirely theirs: it is no longer thyme or marjoram. Similarly a boy will transform and mix his borrowings.Michel de MontaigneEssays · 1580★ 3.6
EssayThere is no man, good as he may be, who, if all his thoughts and actions were submitted to the scrutiny of the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.Michel de MontaigneEssays · 1580★ 3.6
PoemBut true Love is a durable fire, In the mind ever burning; Never sick, never old, never dead, From itself never turning.Sir Walter Raleigh1580★ 3.6
EssayIt is more of a job to interpret the interpretations than to interpret the things, and there are more books about books than about any other subject: we do nothing but write glosses about each other.Michel de MontaigneEssays · 1580★ 2.8
EssayWhenever your life ends, it is all there. The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some men have lived long, and lived little; attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough.Michel de MontaigneEssays · 1580★ 2.8
EssayOne should always have one's boots on, and be ready to leave.Michel de MontaigneEssays · 1580★ 2.1
EssayThose who have likened our life to a dream were more right, by chance, than they realized. We are awake while sleeping, and waking sleep.Michel de MontaigneEssays · 1580★ 2.0
EssayThe diversity of human events offers us infinite examples in all sorts of forms.Michel de MontaigneEssays · 1580★ 2.0
EssayThe value of life lies not in the length of days but in the use you make of them.Michel de MontaigneEssays · 1580★ 2.0
EssayThe worth and value of a man is in his heart and his will; there lies his real honour. Valour is the strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul.Michel de MontaigneEssays · 1580★ 1.9
EssayA man should keep for himself a little back shop, all his own, quite unadulterated, in which he establishes his true freedom and chief place of seclusion and solitude.Michel de MontaigneEssays · 1580★ 1.9
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