Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEAny person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEI prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEFortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThose who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
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 MONTAIGNELend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEEven from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.
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 MONTAIGNEValor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEI care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEWe can be knowledgable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIf you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEOne may be humble out of pride.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe thing I fear most is fear.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEVirtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE