Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere. "

Michel de Montaigne

Related Quotes:

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Michel de Montaigne

" The thing I fear most is fear. "

Michel de Montaigne

" The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One. "

Michel de Montaigne

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Michel de Montaigne

" Ambition is not a vice of little people. "

Michel de Montaigne

" The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them. "

Michel de Montaigne

" How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime! "

Michel de Montaigne

" The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing. "

Michel de Montaigne

" 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

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Michel de Montaigne

" When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her. "

Michel de Montaigne

" A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself. "

Michel de Montaigne

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

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

" Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself. "

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

" If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself. "

Michel de Montaigne

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Michel de Montaigne

" We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void. "

Michel de Montaigne

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

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

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

Michel de Montaigne

" I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie. "

Michel de Montaigne