Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
-
-
Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
In nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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 -
The thing I fear most is fear.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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 -
A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE