Doe Quotes by Michel de Montaigne

The study of books is a drowsy and feeble exercise which does not warm you up.

— Michel de Montaigne

Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself.

— Michel de Montaigne

Take care that old age does not wrinkle your spirit even more than your face.

— Michel de Montaigne

The man who thinks he knows does not yet know what knowing is

— Michel de Montaigne

The archer who overshoots his mark does no better than he who falls short of it.

— Michel de Montaigne

The virtue of the soul does not consist in flying high, but in walking orderly.

— Michel de Montaigne

A hair shirt does not always render those chaste who wear it.

— Michel de Montaigne

Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness.

— Michel de Montaigne

Who is it that does not voluntarily exchange his health, his repose, and his very life for reputation and glory? The most…

— Michel de Montaigne

Not only does the wind of accidents stir me according to its blowing, but I am also stirred and troubled by the…

— Michel de Montaigne

If your doctor does not think it good for you to sleep, to drink wine, or to eat of a particular dish,…

— Michel de Montaigne

We are nearer neighbors to ourselves than the whiteness of snow or the weight of stones are to us: if man does…

— Michel de Montaigne

Age imprints more wrinkles a in the mind, than it does in the face, and souls are never, or very rarely seen,…

— Michel de Montaigne

There is no virtue which does not rejoice a well-descended nature; there is a kind of I know not what congratulation in…

— Michel de Montaigne

For truth itself does not have the privilege to be employed at any time and in every way; its use, noble as…

— Michel de Montaigne

“Fortune does us neither good nor hurt; she only presents us the matter and the seed, which our soul, more powerful than…

— Michel de Montaigne

The concern that some women show at the absence of their husbands, does not arise from their not seeing them and being…

— Michel de Montaigne

Memory is a wonderfully useful tool, and without it judgement does its work with difficulty; it is entirely lacking in me… Now,the…

— Michel de Montaigne

The good, supreme, divine poetry is above the rules and reason. Whoever discerns its beauty with a firm, sedate gaze does not…

— 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

I enter into discussion and argument with great freedom and ease, inasmuch as opinion finds me in a bad soil to penetrate…

— Michel de Montaigne

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

The first law that ever God gave to man was a law of pure obedience; it was a commandment naked and simple,…

— Michel de Montaigne

Who does not see that I have taken a road along which I shall go, without stopping and without effort, as long…

— 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

Men do not know the natural infirmity of their mind: it does nothing but ferret and quest, and keeps incessantly whirling around,…

— Michel de Montaigne

He who does not live in some degree for others, hardly lives for himself.

— Michel de Montaigne

Anyone who does not feel sufficiently strong in memory should not meddle with lying.

— Michel de Montaigne

In true friendship, in which I am expert, I give myself to my friend more than I draw him to me. I…

— 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

Learning is a good medicine: but no medicine is powerful enough to preserve itself from taint and corruption independently of defects in…

— Michel de Montaigne