Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
-
-
Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
Ambition is not a vice of little people.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
In nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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 -
Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE