The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIt should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
-
-
She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
I 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 MONTAIGNE -
I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
Few men have been admired of their familiars.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE






