I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEOf all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
-
-
If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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 -
The 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 MONTAIGNE -
Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
My trade and art is to live.
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 -
Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE