Inspirational Quotes by Michel de Montaigne

God sends the cold according to the coat.

— Michel de Montaigne

To philosophize is to doubt.

— Michel de Montaigne

He loves little who loves by rule.

— Michel de Montaigne

The most universal quality is diversity.

— Michel de Montaigne

Habit is second nature.

— Michel de Montaigne

Like a full-fed guest, depart to rest ...

— Michel de Montaigne

A strong imagination begetteth opportunity.

— Michel de Montaigne

Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope.

— Michel de Montaigne

Opinion is a powerful party, bold, and without measure.

— Michel de Montaigne

He who lives not to others, lives little to himself.

— Michel de Montaigne

I will follow the right side even to the fire, but excluding the fire if I can.

— Michel de Montaigne

The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.

— Michel de Montaigne

Report followeth not all goodness, except difficulty and rarity be joined thereto.

— Michel de Montaigne

Rash and incessant scolding runs into custom and renders itself despised.

— Michel de Montaigne

Tis faith alone that vividly and certainly comprehends the deep mysteries of our religion.

— Michel de Montaigne

I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.

— Michel de Montaigne

The honor we receive from those that fear us, is not honor; those respects are paid to royalty and not to me.

— Michel de Montaigne

Every one's true worship was that which he found in use in the place where he chanced to be.

— Michel de Montaigne

A man must always study, but he must not always go to school: what a contemptible thing is an old abecedarian!

— Michel de Montaigne

There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and…

— Michel de Montaigne

Is there a polity better ordered, the offices better distributed, and more inviolably observed and maintained, than that of bees?

— Michel de Montaigne

A learned man is not learned in all things; but a sufficient man is sufficient throughout, even to ignorance itself.

— Michel de Montaigne

We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade; our life, like the harmony of the world, is composed of contrary things,…

— Michel de Montaigne

Princes give me sufficiently if they take nothing from me, and do me much good if they do me no hurt; it…

— Michel de Montaigne

"Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation." -If you press me to say why I…

— Michel de Montaigne

My appetite comes to me while eating.

— Michel de Montaigne

May God defend me from myself.

— Michel de Montaigne

What a man hates, he takes seriously.

— Michel de Montaigne

Necessity is a violent school-mistress.

— Michel de Montaigne

The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

— Michel de Montaigne

I am myself the matter of my book.

— Michel de Montaigne

You have your face bare; I am all face.

— Michel de Montaigne

No wind favors he who has no destined port.

— Michel de Montaigne

We cannot fail in following nature.

— Michel de Montaigne

We are all of us richer than we think we are.

— Michel de Montaigne

Cowardice is the mother of cruelty.

— Michel de Montaigne

It needs courage to be afraid.

— Michel de Montaigne

I do not understand; I pause; I examine.

— Michel de Montaigne

We have power over nothing except our will.

— Michel de Montaigne

We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade.

— Michel de Montaigne