41 quotes by Michel de Montaigne

“I quote others only in order to better express myself.” — Michel de Montaigne

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“The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.” — Michel de Montaigne

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“It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.” — Michel de Montaigne

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“It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.” — Michel de Montaigne

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“The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.” — Michel de Montaigne

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“Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.” — Michel de Montaigne

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“The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.” — Michel de Montaigne

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“It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.” — Michel de Montaigne

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“Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.” — Michel de Montaigne

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“Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.” — Michel de Montaigne

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“I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.” — Michel de Montaigne

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“In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.” — Michel de Montaigne

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“There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.” — Michel de Montaigne

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“How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.” — Michel de Montaigne

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“There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.” — Michel de Montaigne

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“There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.” — Michel de Montaigne

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“There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.” — Michel de Montaigne

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“The thing I fear most is fear.” — Michel de Montaigne

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“If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.” — Michel de Montaigne

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“The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.” — Michel de Montaigne

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“A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.” — Michel de Montaigne

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“We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.” — Michel de Montaigne

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“There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.” — Michel de Montaigne

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“Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.” — Michel de Montaigne

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“If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.” — Michel de Montaigne

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