Life Quotes by Michel de Montaigne

He loves little who loves by rule.

— Michel de Montaigne

“The customs and practices of life in society sweep us along.”

— Michel de Montaigne

“The ceaseless labor of your life is to build the house of death.”

— Michel de Montaigne

The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.

— Michel de Montaigne

“Life should be an aim unto itself, a purpose unto itself.”

— Michel de Montaigne

It is a rare life that remains orderly even in private.

— Michel de Montaigne

The day of your birth leads you to death as well as to life.

— Michel de Montaigne

In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our…

— Michel de Montaigne

Even opinion is of force enough to make itself to be espoused at the expense of life.

— Michel de Montaigne

The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts, and the great art of life is to have as many of them…

— Michel de Montaigne

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

— Michel de Montaigne

..a man may live long, yet live very little. Satisfaction in life depends not on the number of your years, but on…

— Michel de Montaigne

Make use of life while you have it. Whether you have lived enough depends upon yourself, not on the number of your…

— Michel de Montaigne

If I can, I shall keep my death from saying anything that my life has not already said.

— Michel de Montaigne

The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

— Michel de Montaigne

There is, nevertheless, a certain respect and a general duty of humanity that ties us, not only to beasts that have life…

— Michel de Montaigne

I find no quality so easy for a man to counterfeit as devotion, though his life and manner are not conformable to…

— Michel de Montaigne

I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common…

— Michel de Montaigne

The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some men have lived long, and lived little; attend to…

— Michel de Montaigne

There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thoughts under the scrutiny of the laws, he…

— Michel de Montaigne

Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their…

— Michel de Montaigne

After they had accustomed themselves at Rome to the spectacles of the slaughter of animals, they proceeded to those of the slaughter…

— Michel de Montaigne

The finest lives, in my opinion, are those who rank in the common model, and with the human race, but without miracle,…

— Michel De Montaigne

God might grant us riches, honours, life, and even health, to our own hurt; for every thing that is pleasing to us…

— Michel de Montaigne

We hold death, poverty, and grief for our principal enemies; but this death, which some repute the most dreadful of all dreadful…

— Michel de Montaigne

Our thoughts are always elsewhere; we are stayed and supported by the hope for a better life, or by the hope that…

— Michel de Montaigne

My trade and my art is living. He who forbids me to speak about it according to my sense, experience, and practice,…

— Michel de Montaigne

“Antigonus, having taken one of his soldiers into a great degree of favor and esteem for his valor, gave his physicians strict…

— Michel de Montaigne

“We must learn to suffer whatever we cannot avoid. Our life is composed, like the harmony of the world, of dischords as…

— Michel de Montaigne

Water, earth, air, fire, and the other parts of this structure of mine are no more instruments of your life than instruments…

— Michel de Montaigne

Human wisdom makes as ill use of her talent when she exercises it in rescinding from the number and sweetness of those…

— Michel de Montaigne

“Let the tutor not merely require a verbal account of what the boy has been taught but the meaning and the substance…

— Michel de Montaigne

“Anyone who has not groomed his life in general towards some definite end cannot possibly arrange his individual actions properly. It is…

— Michel de Montaigne

All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly.

— Michel de Montaigne

I speak the truth, not my fill of it, but as much as I dare speak; and I dare to do so…

— Michel de Montaigne

“The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere is to be nowhere.es”

— Michel de Montaigne

Every period of life has its peculiar prejudices; whoever saw old age, that did not applaud the past, and condemn the present…

— Michel de Montaigne

Life in itself is neither good nor evil, it is the place of good and evil, according to what you make it.

— Michel de Montaigne

There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened.

— Michel de Montaigne

We trouble our life by thoughts about death, and our death by thoughts about life.

— Michel de Montaigne