Michel de Montaigne Ordinary Quotations

If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.

And as hearbes and trees are bettered and fortified by being transplanted, so formes of speach are embellished and graced by variation.... As in our ordinary language, we shall sometimes meete with excellent phrases, and quaint metaphors, whose blithnesse fadeth through age, and colour is tarnish by to common using them....

The most ordinary things, the most common and familiar, if we could see them in their true light, would turn out to be the grandest miracles.

Tis the taste of effeminacy that disrelishes ordinary and accustomed things.