Best 5 quotes of Montaigne on MyQuotes

A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.

Each man calls barbarism whatever is not his own practice.

Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.

Retire within yourselves; but first prepare yourselves to receive yourselves there. It would be madness to trust yourselves to yourselves if you do not know how to control yourselves. There are ways of failing in solitude as well as in company.

We need but little learning to live happily.