Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old Michel De Montaigne quotes, Michel De Montaigne sayings, and Michel De Montaigne proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.'
If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.Michel de Montaigne
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.Michel de Montaigne
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I listen with attention to the judgement of all men; but so far as I can remember, I have followed none but my own.Michel de Montaigne
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The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.Michel de Montaigne
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and apply myself to them, if they will not apply themselves to me.Michel de Montaigne
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He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear.Michel de Montaigne
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Getting married is very much like going to a restaurant with friends. You order what you want then when you see what the other person has, you wish you had ordered that.Michel de Montaigne
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There is no passion so much transports the sincerity of judgement as doth anger.Michel de Montaigne
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We feel a kind of bittersweet pricking of malicious delight in contemplating the misfortunes of others.Michel de Montaigne
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.Michel de Montaigne
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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.Michel de Montaigne
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.Michel de Montaigne
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The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man; some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice, cruelty, according to their power.Michel de Montaigne
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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.Michel de Montaigne
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Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.Michel de Montaigne
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All general judgments are loose and imperfectMichel de Montaigne
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I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.Michel de Montaigne
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Glory and repose are things that cannot possibly inhabit in one and the same place.Michel de Montaigne
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.Michel de Montaigne
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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
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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness. Michel de Montaigne
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.Michel de Montaigne
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Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.Michel de Montaigne
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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.Michel de Montaigne
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.Michel de Montaigne
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O human creature,you are the investigator without knowledge, the magistrate without jurisdiction, and all in all, the fool of the farce.Michel de Montaigne
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The great and glorious masterpiece of humanity is to know how to live with a purpose.Michel de Montaigne
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One open way of speaking introduces another open way of speaking, and draws out discoveries, like wine and love.Michel de Montaigne
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Obstinacy is the sister of constancy, at least in vigor and stability.Michel de Montaigne
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Valor is stability not of legs and arms but of courage and the soul.Michel de Montaigne