Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" One may be humble out of pride. "

Michel de Montaigne

Related Quotes:

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

Michel de Montaigne

" Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie. "

Michel de Montaigne

" Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out. "

Michel de Montaigne

" A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them. "

Michel de Montaigne

" There is no passion so contagious as that of fear. "

Michel de Montaigne

" Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations. "

Michel de Montaigne

" Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know. "

Michel de Montaigne

" Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head. "

Michel de Montaigne

" 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

" The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness. "

Michel de Montaigne

" It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason. "

Michel de Montaigne

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

Michel de Montaigne

" Not being able to govern events, I govern myself. "

Michel de Montaigne

" I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself. "

Michel de Montaigne

" Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think. "

Michel de Montaigne

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

Michel de Montaigne

" Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self. "

Michel de Montaigne

" Few men have been admired of their familiars. "

Michel de Montaigne

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

Michel de Montaigne

" Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience. "

Michel de Montaigne

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

Michel de Montaigne

" There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom. "

Michel de Montaigne

" A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears. "

Michel de Montaigne

" The thing I fear most is fear. "

Michel de Montaigne

" It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully. "

Michel de Montaigne

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

Michel de Montaigne

" I quote others only in order the better to express myself. "

Michel de Montaigne

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

Michel de Montaigne

" I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it. "

Michel de Montaigne

" There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge. "

Michel de Montaigne