Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEValor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk – they are all part of the curriculum.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEHow many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe world is but a perpetual see-saw.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEWe only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEI set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man’s estate.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThere is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThere are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNENothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNETis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEMarriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them… Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNELet us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEAny person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE