The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEEvery man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThere is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIt is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe 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 MONTAIGNEThe thing I fear most is fear.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEOf all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThere is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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 MONTAIGNEFortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIn nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEOnce 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 MONTAIGNEVirtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIf there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEWe only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE