Michel de Montaigne: Certes, c'est un subject merveilleusement vain, divers, et ondoyant, que l'homme. Il est malaisé d'y fonder jugement con

Certes, c'est un subject merveilleusement vain, divers, et ondoyant, que l'homme — Michel de Montaigne

Certes, c'est un subject merveilleusement vain, divers, et ondoyant, que l'homme. Il est malaisé d'y fonder jugement constant et uniforme.

Source: Wikiquote (CC BY-SA 3.0). Quotations may be subject to their authors' rights and may be shown in translation.

Confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God — Michel de Montaigne
I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of m — Michel de Montaigne
L'homme est bien insensé. Il ne saurait forger un ciron, et forge des Dieux à do — Michel de Montaigne
Accustom him to every thing, that he may not be a Sir Paris, a carpet-knight, bu — Michel de Montaigne
The whole life of the upper classes is a constant inconsistency. The more delica — Leo Tolstoy
You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A nice man would feel ashamed even before a dog. — Anton Chekhov
Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it. — Albert Einstein
I would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced with polish'd manners and — William Cowper
When the sun appears which dispels darkness in general, you put out the light wh — Leonardo da Vinci
I have read a few pages of this diary. At the end of the day, it's the best and — Jules Renard
Il n'y a guère de gens qui ne soient honteux de s'être aimés, quand ils ne s'aim — François de La Rochefoucauld