Michel Montaigne Quotes
+3A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
- Michel Montaigne
+1Fear, desire, hope still push us on toward the future.
- Michel Montaigne
+1Of all the benefits which virtue confers on us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.
- Michel Montaigne
+1Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
- Michel Montaigne
+1There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God.
- Michel Montaigne
+1Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.
- Michel Montaigne
+1The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from custom.
- Michel Montaigne
+1Few men have been admired of their familiars.
- Michel Montaigne
+1Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope.
- Michel Montaigne
+1Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest.
- Michel Montaigne
+1The greater part of the world’s troubles are due to questions and grammar.
- Michel Montaigne
+1It should be noted that the games of children are not games, and must be considered as their most serious actions.
- Michel Montaigne
+1Let us a little permit Nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we.
- Michel Montaigne
0Friendship is a creature formed for a companionship not for a herd.
- Michel Montaigne
0Those who have compared our life to a dream were right. We sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
- Michel Montaigne
0In nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
- Michel Montaigne
0It is humankind’s duty to respect all life, not only animals have feelings but even also trees and plants.
- Michel Montaigne
0Life is a dream; when we sleep we are awake, and when awake we sleep.
- Michel Montaigne
