No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNENo wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEDeath, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEHow many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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 MONTAIGNEIn nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNELend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEOf all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEA good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThere is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEConfidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEA straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThere is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEMy trade and art is to live.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEI do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE