Michel De Montaigne quotes

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.

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.

Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.

No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.

Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.

We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.

Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.

The thing I fear most is fear.

Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.

No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.

How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

My trade and art is to live.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.

Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.

It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.

Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.

Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.

We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.

Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.

Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

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.

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.

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.

The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

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.

It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.