--- title: "Best World Quotes by Michel de Montaigne" description: "47 World quotes by Michel de Montaigne. Plus more from Michel de Montaigne and more World sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0ef/michel-de-montaigne-142_contrary_we-must-learn-to-suffer-what-we-cannot-e_1788889.jpg" --- > [We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade; our life, like the harmony of the world, is composed of contrary things,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-de-montaigne/we-must-learn-to-suffer-what-we-cannot-evade-our-life-like-the/) [Michel de Montaigne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-de-montaigne/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0ef/michel-de-montaigne-142_contrary_we-must-learn-to-suffer-what-we-cannot-e_1788889.jpg) > [The world is but a perennial movement. All things in it are in constant motion-the earth, the rocks of the Caucasus, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-de-montaigne/the-world-is-but-a-perennial-movement-all-things-in-it-are-in/) [Michel de Montaigne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-de-montaigne/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b38/michel-de-montaigne-142_all-things_the-world-is-but-a-perennial-movement-al_1758426.jpg) > [I am much afraid that we shall have very greatly hastened the decline and ruin of the New World by our contagion,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-de-montaigne/i-am-much-afraid-that-we-shall-have-very-greatly-hastened-the-decline/) [Michel de Montaigne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-de-montaigne/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8b9/michel-de-montaigne-142_america_i-am-much-afraid-that-we-shall-have-very_1012259.jpg) > [Travelling through the world produces a marvellous clarity in the judgment of men. We are all of us confined and enclosed within…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-de-montaigne/travelling-through-the-world-produces-a-marvellous-clarity-in-the/) [Michel de Montaigne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-de-montaigne/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f1e/michel-de-montaigne-142_clarity_travelling-through-the-world-produces-a_446556.jpg) > [I never rebel so much against France as not to regard Paris with a friendly eye; she has had my heart since…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-de-montaigne/i-never-rebel-so-much-against-france-as-not-to-regard-paris-with-a/) [Michel de Montaigne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-de-montaigne/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5f1/michel-de-montaigne-142_childhood_i-never-rebel-so-much-against-france-as_83896.jpg) > [The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-de-montaigne/the-entire-lower-world-was-created-in-the-likeness-of-the-higher/) [Michel de Montaigne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-de-montaigne/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c70/michel-de-montaigne-142_higher_the-entire-lower-world-was-created-in-th_2160840.jpg) > [It is in vain that we get upon stilts, for once on them, it is still with our legs that we must…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-de-montaigne/it-is-in-vain-that-we-get-upon-stilts-for-once-on-them-it-is-still/) [Michel de Montaigne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-de-montaigne/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6c9/michel-de-montaigne-142_ass_it-is-in-vain-that-we-get-upon-stilts-fo_2563890.jpg) ## Other authors on World - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b022/author-sunday-adelaja-87912.jpg) Sunday Adelaja 641 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/world/sunday-adelaja/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-frederick-lenz-36205.jpg) Frederick Lenz 475 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/world/frederick-lenz/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-barack-obama-16275.jpg) Barack Obama 297 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/world/barack-obama/) - [Ralph Waldo Emerson 284 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/world/ralph-waldo-emerson/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b018/author-noam-chomsky-71799.jpg) Noam Chomsky 207 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/world/noam-chomsky/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b016/author-mahatma-gandhi-62675.jpg) Mahatma Gandhi 198 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/world/mahatma-gandhi/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b019/author-paulo-coelho-74345.jpg) Paulo Coelho 175 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/world/paulo-coelho/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b023/author-swami-vivekananda-88348.jpg) Swami Vivekananda 174 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/world/swami-vivekananda/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b008/author-donald-trump-30060.jpg) Donald Trump 174 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/world/donald-trump/) - [Dada Bhagwan 173 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/world/dada-bhagwan/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b016/author-marianne-williamson-63745.jpg) Marianne Williamson 169 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/world/marianne-williamson/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b011/author-henry-david-thoreau-41473.jpg) Henry David Thoreau 163 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/world/henry-david-thoreau/) ## More by Michel de Montaigne > [No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-de-montaigne/no-man-is-exempt-from-saying-silly-things-the-mischief-is-to-say-them/) [Michel de Montaigne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-de-montaigne/) > [The laws keep up their credit, not by being just, but because they are laws; 'tis the mystic foundation of their authority; they have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-de-montaigne/the-laws-keep-up-their-credit-not-by-being-just-but-because-they-are/) [Michel de Montaigne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-de-montaigne/) > [Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-de-montaigne/every-one-rushes-elsewhere-and-into-the-future-because-no-one-wants/) [Michel de Montaigne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-de-montaigne/) > [Beauty is the true prerogative of women, and so peculiarly their own, that our sex, though naturally requiring another sort of feature, is never…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-de-montaigne/beauty-is-the-true-prerogative-of-women-and-so-peculiarly-their-own/) [Michel de Montaigne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-de-montaigne/) > [The height and value of true virtue consists in the facility, utility, and pleasure of its exercise; so far from difficulty, that boys, as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-de-montaigne/the-height-and-value-of-true-virtue-consists-in-the-facility-utility/) [Michel de Montaigne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-de-montaigne/) > [Fie on the eloquence that leaves us craving itself, not things!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-de-montaigne/fie-on-the-eloquence-that-leaves-us-craving-itself-not-things/) [Michel de Montaigne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-de-montaigne/) > [The plainest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness: her state is like that of things in the regions above the moon, always clear…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-de-montaigne/the-plainest-sign-of-wisdom-is-a-continual-cheerfulness-her-state-is/) [Michel De Montaigne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-de-montaigne/) > [The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man; some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-de-montaigne/the-corruption-of-the-age-is-made-up-by-the-particular-contribution/) [Michel de Montaigne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-de-montaigne/) > [If people must be talking about me, I would have it to be truthfully and justly. I would willingly return from the next world…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-de-montaigne/if-people-must-be-talking-about-me-i-would-have-it-to-be-truthfully/) [Michel de Montaigne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-de-montaigne/) > [Most pleasures embrace us but to strangle.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-de-montaigne/most-pleasures-embrace-us-but-to-strangle/) [Michel de Montaigne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-de-montaigne/) > [In true friendship, in which I am expert, I give myself to my friend more than I draw him to me. I not only…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-de-montaigne/in-true-friendship-in-which-i-am-expert-i-give-myself-to-my-friend/) [Michel de Montaigne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-de-montaigne/) > [There are as many and innumerable degrees of wit, as there are cubits between this and heaven.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-de-montaigne/there-are-as-many-and-innumerable-degrees-of-wit-as-there-are-cubits/) [Michel de Montaigne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-de-montaigne/) > [A man has need of tough ears to hear himself fairly judged.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-de-montaigne/a-man-has-need-of-tough-ears-to-hear-himself-fairly-judged/) [Michel de Montaigne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-de-montaigne/) > [Lucius Arruntius killed himself, he said, to escape both the future and the past.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-de-montaigne/lucius-arruntius-killed-himself-he-said-to-escape-both-the-future-and/) [Michel de Montaigne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-de-montaigne/) > [I have a vocabulary all my own. I pass the time when itis wet and disagreeable. Whenit is fine I do not wish to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-de-montaigne/i-have-a-vocabulary-all-my-own-i-pass-the-time-when-itis-wet-and/) [Michel de Montaigne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-de-montaigne/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/world/michel-de-montaigne/#itemlist", "name": "Best World Quotes by Michel de Montaigne", "numberOfItems": 7, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade; our life, like the harmony of the world, is composed of contrary things, and one part is no less necessary than the other.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Michel de Montaigne" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-de-montaigne/we-must-learn-to-suffer-what-we-cannot-evade-our-life-like-the/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0ef/michel-de-montaigne-142_contrary_we-must-learn-to-suffer-what-we-cannot-e_1788889.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0ef/michel-de-montaigne-142_contrary_we-must-learn-to-suffer-what-we-cannot-e_1788889.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0ef/michel-de-montaigne-142_contrary_we-must-learn-to-suffer-what-we-cannot-e_1788889.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade; our life, like the harmony of the world, is composed of…” — Michel de Montaigne", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The world is but a perennial movement. 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