All the opinions in the world point out that pleasure is our aim. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
A man must live in the world and make the best of it, such as it is. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
As for extraordinary things, all the provision in the world would not suffice. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
As far as fidelity is concerned, there is no animal in the world as treacherous as man. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The most regular and most perfect soul in the world has but too much to do to keep itself upright from being… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear, and with good reason; that passion alone, in the trouble… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The world is but a school of inquisition; it is not who shall enter the ring, but who shall run the best… — 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
All opinions in the world agree in this, that pleasure is our end, although they differ as to the means of attaining… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I never rebel so much against France as not to regard Paris with a friendly eye; she has had my heart since… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
It is in vain that we get upon stilts, for once on them, it is still with our legs that we must… — 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
The world is but a perennial movement. All things in it are in constant motion-the earth, the rocks of the Caucasus, the… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I am much afraid that we shall have very greatly hastened the decline and ruin of the New World by our contagion,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Travelling through the world produces a marvellous clarity in the judgment of men. We are all of us confined and enclosed within… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Every one is well or ill at ease, according as he finds himself! not he whom the world believes, but he who… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Whenever a new discovery is reported to the world, they say first, It is probably not true, Then after, when the truth… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The worthiest man to be known, and for a pattern to be presented to the world, he is the man of whom… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The world always looks straights ahead; as for me, I turn my gaze inward, I fix it there and keep it busy.… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Whenever a new finding is reported to the world people say - It is probably not true. Later on, when the reliability… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Traveling through the world produces a marvelous clarity in the judgment of men. We are all of us confined and enclosed within… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Can anything be imagined so ridiculous that this miserable and wretched creature, who is not so much as master of himself, but… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Our speech has its weaknesses and its defects, like all the rest. Most of the occasions for the troubles of the world… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
How many quarrels, and how important, has the doubt as to the meaning of this syllable "Hoc" produced for the world! — 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
Why dost thou complain of this world? It detains thee not; thy own cowardice is the cause, if thou livest in pain. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
There never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains; the most universal quality is… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
If people must be talking about me, I would have it to be truthfully and justly. I would willingly return from the… — 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
