« All Inspirational Quotes · Michel de Montaigne's Page
Inspirational Quotes by Michel de Montaigne
- We seem ambitious God's whole work to undo. ...With new diseases on ourselves we war, And with new physic, a worse engine far.
- Tis so much to be a king, that he only is so by being so.
- He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear.
- Who feareth to suffer suffereth already, because he feareth.
- Repentance is but a denying of our will, and an opposition of our fantasies.
- Taking it all in all, I find it is more trouble to watch after money than to get it.
- I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.
- When I quote others I do so in order to express my own ideas more clearly.
- He who lives not to others, lives little to himself.
- The great and glorious masterpiece of humanity is to know how to live with a purpose.
- I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures.
- A lady could not boast of her chastity who was never tempted.
- Custom is a second nature, and no less powerful.
- The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from Custom.
- The beauty of stature is the only beauty of men.
- Friendship is the highest degree of perfection in society.
- My reason is not framed to bend or stoop: my knees are.
- Things seem greater by imagination than they are in effect.
- It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness.
- 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…
- All other knowledge is hurtful to him who has not honesty and good-nature
- The strength of any plan depends on the time. Circumstances and things eternally shift and change.
- I quote others in order to better express myself.
- Cowardice is the mother of cruelty.
- Socrates thought and so do I that the wisest theory about the gods is no theory at all.
More Ways to Read Inspirational Quotes by Michel de Montaigne
- Inspiration Quotes by Michel de Montaigne (Inspirational Quotes by Michel de Montaigne)
- Inspiring Quotes by Michel de Montaigne (Inspirational Quotes by Michel de Montaigne)
- Best Inspirational Quotes by Michel de Montaigne (Inspirational Quotes by Michel de Montaigne)
- Best Inspirational Sayings by Michel de Montaigne (Inspirational Quotes by Michel de Montaigne)
- Best Inspirational Quotations by Michel de Montaigne (Inspirational Quotes by Michel de Montaigne)
- Best Inspirational Words by Michel de Montaigne (Inspirational Quotes by Michel de Montaigne)
- Best Inspirational Lines by Michel de Montaigne (Inspirational Quotes by Michel de Montaigne)
- Best Inspirational Thoughts by Michel de Montaigne (Inspirational Quotes by Michel de Montaigne)
More Inspirational Quotes
- This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
- There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento