There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
-
-
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 finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
The 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 MONTAIGNE -
How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
The prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk – they are all part of the curriculum.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
One may be humble out of pride.
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 -
The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE