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
“The ceaseless labor of your life is to build the house of death.” — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“The customs and practices of life in society sweep us along.” — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
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 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
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
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
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
“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 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
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
The perpetual work of your life is but to lay the foundation of death. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“I want us to be doing things, prolonging life's duties as much as we can. I want death to find me planting… — 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
A good marriage ... is a sweet association in life: full of constancy, trust, and an infinite number of useful and solid… — 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
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
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
My life has been full of terrible misfortunes 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
“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 finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance. — 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
“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
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
