Meditation is a rich and powerful method of study for anyone who knows how to examine his mind. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
We are all of us richer than we think we are; but we are taught to borrow and to beg, and brought… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“The other two are rich and noble; examples of virtue rarely make their home among people like that.” — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The lack of wealth is easily repaired but the poverty of the soul is irreplaceable. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The desire for riches is more sharpened by their use than by their need. Pleasing all: a mark that can never be… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Taking it all in all, I find it is more trouble to watch after money than to get it. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“Truth for us nowadays is not what is, but what others can be brought to accept: just as we call money not… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Our truth of nowadays is not what is, but what others can be convinced of; just as we call "money" not only… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
We find ourselves more taken with the running up and down, the games, and puerile simplicities of our children, than we do,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Most men are rich in borrowed sufficiency: a man may very well say a good thing, give a good answer, cite a… — 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
Business in a certain sort of men is a mark of understanding, and they are honored for it. Their souls seek repose… — 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
We commend a horse for his strength, and sureness of foot, and not for his rich caparisons; a greyhound for his share… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“And this puts me in mind of that rich gentleman of Rome, who had been solicitous, with great expense, to procure men… — 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
