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
In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our… — 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
Make use of life while you have it. Whether you have lived enough depends upon yourself, not on the number of your… — 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
..a man may live long, yet live very little. Satisfaction in life depends not on the number of your years, but on… — 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
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
I find no quality so easy for a man to counterfeit as devotion, though his life and manner are not conformable to… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thoughts under the scrutiny of the laws, he… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some men have lived long, and lived little; attend to… — 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
“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
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
We must learn to endure what we cannot avoid. Our life is composed, like the harmony of the world, of contrary things,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Whatever I may be, I want to be elsewhere than on paper. My art and my industry have been employed in making… — 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
Human wisdom makes as ill use of her talent when she exercises it in rescinding from the number and sweetness of those… — 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
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
“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
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
Whether the events in our life are good or bad, greatly depends on the way we perceive them. — 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
Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep. — 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
No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be… — 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
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
The great and glorious masterpiece of humanity is to know how to live with a purpose. — 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
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
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
'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
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 most beautiful lives, to my mind, are those that conform to the common human pattern, with order, but without miracle and… — 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
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
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
If you have known how to compose your life, you have done a great deal more than the person who knows how… — 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
