Michel de Montaigne Quotes:
My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
Michel de Montaigne
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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
Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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
Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE