The wise man lives as long as he ought, not so long as he can. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Live as long as you please, you will strike nothing off the time you will have to spend dead. — 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
Some, either from being glued to vice by a natural attachment, or from long habit, no longer recognize its ugliness. — 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
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
To behave rightly, we ourselves should never lay a hand on our servants as long as our anger lasts. Things will seem… — 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
If my intentions were not to be read in my eyes and voice, I should not have survived so long without quarrels… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
What am I to choose? "Choose what you please, as long as you choose." There you have a foolish answer, which seems… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Old age is a lease nature only signs as a particular favor, and it may be, to one, only in the space… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
One may disavow and disclaim vices that surprise us, and whereto our passions transport us; but those which by long habits are… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
One may disavow and disclaim vices that surprise us and whereto our passions transport us. But those which by long habit are… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I was not long since in a company where I was not who of my fraternity brought news of a kind of… — 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
