Quotes by Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten tim >>

Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. M >>

It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many. >>

Quotations about History and Historians

History books that contain no lies are extremely dull. >>

What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampl >>

To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a >>

I love those historians that are either very simple or most excellent. Such as are between both (which is the most common fashion), it is they that spoil all; they will needs chew our meat for us and take upon them a law to judge, and by consequence to square and incline the story according to their fantasy.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De