Skip to content

Quotes from Essays — Michel de Montaigne

1533–1592 France

← All quotes by Michel de Montaigne

4 quotes

Pity and commiseration are mixed with some regard for the thing which one pities.

Essays (1580)

Learned we may be with another man’s learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

Essays (1580)

We work merely to fill the memory, leaving the understanding empty.

Essays (1580)

When I play with my cat, who knows whether she isn't amusing herself with me more than I am amusing myself with her?

Essays (1580)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Michel de Montaigne (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.