The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThere is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEAn untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEConfidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEI 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 MONTAIGNEI do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEA wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEI have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThose who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIt is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIf 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 MONTAIGNEI study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNECovetousness 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 MONTAIGNEThere is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE