Michel de Montaigne's Quotes

Michel de Montaigne's Quotes 83

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or...

I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a...

It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness....

For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should...

Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their...

Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and...

The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of...

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.

No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.

There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.

We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with...

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.

The thing I fear most is fear.

How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as...

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the...

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated...

Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping...

It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on...

The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

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