The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNELove 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.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
-
-
An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
I 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 MONTAIGNE -
Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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 -
The thing I fear most is fear.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
The confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
For truly it is to be noted, that children’s plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE