It is indeed the boundary of life, beyond which we are not to pass; which the law of nature has pitched for… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Long life, and short, are by death made all one; for there is no long, nor short, to things that are no… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“My life has been filled with terrible misfortune; most of which never happened.” — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Now, of all the benefits that virtue confers upon us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The great and glorious masterpiece of humanity is to know how to live with a purpose. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There is nothing so noble and so right as to play our human life well and fitly, nor anything so difficult to… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
There is nothing of evil in life for him who rightly comprehends that death is no evil; to know how to die… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
It needs good management to enjoy life. I enjoy it twice as much as others, for the measure of enjoyment depends on… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Have you been able to think out and manage your own life? You have done the greatest task of all… All other… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I see several animals that live so entire and perfect a life, some without sight, others without hearing: who knows whether to… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
There is a certain consideration, and a general duty of humanity, that binds us not only to the animals, which have life… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Pythagoras used to say that life resembles the Olympic Games: a few people strain their muscles to carry off a prize; others… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
In my opinion, the most fruitful and natural play of the mind is in conversation. I find it sweeter than any other… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
In my opinion it is the happy living, and not, as Antisthenes said, the happy lying, in which human happiness consists. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
If I had to live my life over again I would live it as I have lived it; I neither regret the… — Michel De Montaigne Copy Share Image
What of a truth that is bounded by these mountains and is falsehood to the world that lives beyond? — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... We sleeping wake, and waking sleep. — Michel De Montaigne Copy Share Image
Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Were I to live my life over again, I should live it just as I have done. I neither complain of the… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than it was because he was he,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Life itself is neither a good nor an evil: life is where good or evil find a place, depending on how you… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Whether the events in our life are good or bad, greatly depends on the way we perceive them. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The perpetual work of your life is but to lay the foundation of death. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
As for me, then, I love life and cultivate it just as God has been pleased to grant it to us. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“Livet består av en del galskap, og en del visdom; den som bare skriver ærbødig og konvensjonelt, utelater mer enn halvparten.” — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The utility of living consists not in the length of days, but in the use of time; a man may have lived… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Is it not enough to make me come back to life out of spite, to have someone who spat in my face… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
If you have known how to compose your life, you have done a great deal more than the person who knows how… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Whatever I may be, I want to be elsewhere than on paper. My art and my industry have been employed in making… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I agree that we should work and prolong the functions of life as far as we can, and hope that Death may… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
'As a man who knows how to make his education into a rule of life not a means of showing off; who… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The most beautiful lives, to my mind, are those that conform to the common human pattern, with order, but without miracle and… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Women are not altogether in the wrong when they refuse the rules of life prescribed to the World, for men only have… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share
The laws keep up their credit, not by being just, but because they are laws; 'tis the mystic foundation of their authority; they have… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share
Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share
Beauty is the true prerogative of women, and so peculiarly their own, that our sex, though naturally requiring another sort of feature, is never… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share
The height and value of true virtue consists in the facility, utility, and pleasure of its exercise; so far from difficulty, that boys, as… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share
The plainest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness: her state is like that of things in the regions above the moon, always clear… — Michel De Montaigne Copy Share
The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man; some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share
If people must be talking about me, I would have it to be truthfully and justly. I would willingly return from the next world… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share
In true friendship, in which I am expert, I give myself to my friend more than I draw him to me. I not only… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share
There are as many and innumerable degrees of wit, as there are cubits between this and heaven. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share
Lucius Arruntius killed himself, he said, to escape both the future and the past. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share
I have a vocabulary all my own. I pass the time when itis wet and disagreeable. Whenit is fine I do not wish to… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share
