Michel de Montaigne: Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.

Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being. — Michel de Montaigne

Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.

Michel de Montaigne

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Quelle vérité que ces montagnes bornent, qui est mensonge qui se tient au delà? — Michel de Montaigne

Let us give Nature a chance; she knows her business better than we do. — Michel de Montaigne

I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have at all than to ha — Michel de Montaigne

To an atheist all writings tend to atheism: he corrupts the most innocent matter — Michel de Montaigne

Yo no soy bueno para palacio, porque tengo vergüenza y no sé lisonjear. — Miguel de Cervantes

Ramsgate is full of Jews and fleas. — Karl Marx

Fabricáronles a muchos su grandeza sus malévolos. Más fiera es la lisonja que el — Baltasar Gracián

I hate singers, a miserable crew who think that music exists only in their own t — George Bernard Shaw

What makes the decisive difference is not whether religion is persecuted or not, — Walter Kaufmann

There are in life such confluences of circumstances that render the reproach tha — Anton Chekhov

Je veux qu'on me voit en ma façon simple, naturelle, et ordinaire, sans étude et — Michel de Montaigne

Ah! somehow life is bigger after all Than any painted angel could we see The God — Oscar Wilde