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Famous Quotes in History by Michel Eyquem de Montaigne - 1

This category is for famous quotes in history by Michel Eyquem de Montaigne.

He was a French essayist who lived from 1533 to 1592.

A doctor gets no pleasure out of the health of his friends.

Eloquence flourished most in Rome when public affairs were in the worst condition.

Seeing she could not make fools wise, fortune has made them lucky.

Man is certainly stark mad: he cannot make a worm, and yet he makes gods by the dozen.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

May God defend me from myself!

No one is exempt from talking nonsense; the misfortune is to do it solemnly.

I don't remember ever having had the itch, and yet scratching is one of nature's sweet pleasures, and so handy.

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

If the world complains that I speak too much about myself, I complain that the world doesn't think of itself at all.

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