Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEEvery man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
-
-
In nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil’s alphabet – the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
My trade and art is to live.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
If you don’t know how to die, don’t worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
Few men have been admired of their familiars.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE