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Michel De Montaigne Quotes
"The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness."
"The soul that has no established aim loses itself."
"To begin depriving death of its greatest advantage over us, let us adopt a way clean contrary to that common one let us deprive life of the fear of death."
"Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it."
"We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom."
"Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face."
"Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness."
"Sorrow is a sickness worse than any other."
"I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of."
"A wise man never loses anything if he has himself."
"Confidence in others' honesty and sincerity motivates me when I am in difficult situations."
"Not being able to govern events, I govern myself."
"It is not death that alarms me, but dying."
"It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others."
"A man must be a little mad if he does not want to be even more so."
"There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life."
"We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void."
"Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head."
"We are all framed of frailty and error let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly that is the first law of nature"
"A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears"
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