Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNELove to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNENot being able to govern events, I govern myself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEI speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNERejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEWe are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEEvery man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe world is but a perpetual see-saw.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEOf all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEPoverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEI write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind – and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEFame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEEvery one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEConfidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThere is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEAge imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEMake 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