Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
94 quotations
Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable.
The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
The great and glorious masterpiece of man is how to live with purpose.
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Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities.
Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm, and yet will make Gods by dozens.
Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom.
Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
Of all the infirmities we have, the most savage is to despise our being.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to be self-sufficient.
Few men have been admired of their familiars.
He who lives not to others, lives little to himself.
Obstinacy is the sister of constancy, at least in vigor and stability.
My reason is not framed to bend or stoop: my knees are.
Who feareth to suffer suffereth already, because he feareth.
The beauty of stature is the only beauty of men.
How many things served us but yesterday as articles of faith, which today we deem but fables?
Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.
Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.
Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
An unattempted lady could not vaunt of her chastity.
The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
Socrates thought and so do I that the wisest theory about the gods is no theory at all.
A man should ever be ready booted to take his journey.
Those things that are dearest to us have cost us the most.