Quotes by : Michel de Montaigne

He lives happy and master of himself who can say as each day passes on, "I have lived.

Je hay entre autres vices, cruellement la cruauté, et par nature et par jugement, comme l'extreme de....

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately.....

The soul that has no established aim loses itself.

Antigonus, having taken one of his soldiers into a great degree of favor and esteem for his valor, gave....

Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.

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

The highest wisdom is continual cheerfulness such a state like the region above the moon is always....

The value of life lies not in the length of days but in the use we make of them a man may live long....

He who fears he shall suffer already suffers what he fears.