My trade and art is to live.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEMy trade and art is to live.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThere is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIgnorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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 MONTAIGNEA wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEPoverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEFew men have been admired of their familiars.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThere are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNELet us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIt is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThere is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThere is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEI prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIt 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 MONTAIGNEThose who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE