Michel De Montaigne Sayings and Quotes

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.'

The most universal quality is diversity. Michel de Montaigne
Most pleasures embrace us but to strangle. Michel de Montaigne
The clatter of arms drowns out the voice of law. Michel de Montaigne
The sage says that all that is under heaven incurs the same law and the same fate. Michel de Montaigne
The profit we possess after study is to have become better and wiser. Michel de Montaigne
Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition. Michel de Montaigne
If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves. Michel de Montaigne
Venus is not so beautiful all naked, alive, and panting, as she is here in Virgil. Michel de Montaigne
We must reserve a little back-shop, all our own, entirely free, wherein to establish our true liberty and principal retreat and solitude. Michel de Montaigne
I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself. Michel de Montaigne
It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully. Michel de Montaigne
An honest man is not accountable for the vice and folly of his trade, and therefore ought not to refuse the exercise of it. Michel de Montaigne
I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing except wind. Michel de Montaigne
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband. Michel de Montaigne
A man must be a little mad if he does not want to be even more stupid. Michel de Montaigne
Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible. Michel de Montaigne
It costs an unreasonable woman no more to pass over one reason than another they cherish themselves most where they are most wrong. Michel de Montaigne
The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mould. Michel de Montaigne
The most terrible and violent of our own afflictions is to despise our own beings. Michel de Montaigne
A good marriage needs a blind wife and a deaf husband. Michel de Montaigne
I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing except wind. Michel de Montaigne
The virtue of the soul does not consist in flying high, but in walking orderly. Michel de Montaigne
No wind favors him who has no destined port. Michel de Montaigne
He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears. Michel de Montaigne
I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself. Michel de Montaigne
Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul. Michel de Montaigne
He who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying. Michel de Montaigne
How many valiant men we have seen to survive their own reputation! Michel de Montaigne
Ambition is not a vice of little people. Michel de Montaigne
We feel a kind of bittersweet pricking of malicious delight in contemplating the misfortunes of others. Michel de Montaigne