Every period of life has its peculiar prejudices; whoever saw old age, that did not applaud the past, and condemn the present… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
There is, nevertheless, a certain respect and a general duty of humanity that ties us, not only to beasts that have life… — 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
Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep. — 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
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
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
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
Life in itself is neither good nor evil, it is the place of good and evil, according to what you make it. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I speak the truth, not my fill of it, but as much as I dare speak; and I dare to do so… — 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
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
Even opinion is of force enough to make itself to be espoused at the expense of life. — 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
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
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
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
“Let the tutor not merely require a verbal account of what the boy has been taught but the meaning and the substance… — 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
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
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
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 Copy Share Image
If I can, I shall keep my death from saying anything that my life has not already said. — 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
