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 MONTAIGNECovetousness 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 MONTAIGNEEvery man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEUnless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThose who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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 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 MONTAIGNEHe who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEI have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEI do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEMy trade and art is to live.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNENo wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEA wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNELend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEMy life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE