If by being overstudious, we impair our health and spoil our good humor, let us give it up. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
As far as I am concerned, no road that would lead us to health is either arduous or expensive. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Plenty and indigence depend upon the opinion every one has of them; and riches, like glory of health, have no more beauty… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
As great enmities spring from great friendships, and mortal distempers from vigorous health, so do the most surprising and the wildest frenzies… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Health is a precious thing, and the only one, in truth, meriting that a man should lay out not only his time,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
If health and a fair day smile upon me, I am a very good fellow; if a corn trouble my toe, I… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“The soul in which philosophy dwells should by its health make even the body healthy. It should make its tranquillity and gladness… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Books are pleasant, but if by being over-studious we impair our health and spoil our good humour, two of the best things… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
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 Image
Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
Fie on the eloquence that leaves us craving itself, not things! — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
There are as many and innumerable degrees of wit, as there are cubits between this and heaven. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
