Michel de Montaigne Quotes About Goodness

Quotes about: Goodness

• Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Confidence, Philosophical, Goodness

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book I, Ch. 14, 1595.

• Report followeth not all goodness, except difficulty and rarity be joined thereto.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Goodness, Difficulty, Reports

  Michel de Montaigne (1903*). “Essays of Montaigne”

• Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Doe, Goodness

  "Essays" by Michel de Montaigne, Book I, Ch. 25, 1595.

• For table-talk, I prefer the pleasant and witty before the learned and the grave; in bed, beauty before goodness.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Witty, Bed, Tables

  Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.397, Delphi Classics

• In true friendship, in which I am expert, I give myself to my friend more than I draw him to me. I not only like doing him good better than having him do me good, but also would rather have him do good to himself than to me; he does me most good when he does himself good.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Love, Friendship, True Friend

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.746, Stanford University Press

• People of our time are so formed for agitation and ostentation that goodness, moderation, equability, constancy, and such quiet and obscure qualities are no longer felt.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Business, People, Society

• Who is only good that others may know it, and that he may be the better esteemed when 'tis known, who will do well but upon condition that his virtue may be known to men, is one from whom much service is not to be expected.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, May, Virtue

  Michel de Montaigne (1849). “Works: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy; with Notes, Notices, Etc”, p.317

• Of all human and ancient opinions concerning religion, that seems to me the most likely and most excusable, that acknowledged God as an incomprehensible power, the original and preserver of all things, all goodness, all perfection, receiving and taking in good part the honour and reverence that man paid him, under what method, name, or ceremonies soever.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Names, Perfection

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.536, 谷月社

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