Quotes by Michel de Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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The finest lives, in my opinion, are those who rank in the common model, and with the human race, but without miracle, without extravagance.

Michel de Montaigne

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

Michel de Montaigne

Those who make a practice of comparing human actions are never so perplexed as when they try to see them as a whole and in the same light; for they commonly contradict each other so strangely that it seems impossible that they have come from the same shop.

Michel de Montaigne

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.

Michel de Montaigne

Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest.

Michel De Montaigne

We need very strong ears to hear ourselves judged frankly, and because there are few who can endure frank criticism without being stung by it, those who venture to criticize us perform a remarkable act of friendship, for to undertake to wound or offe

Michel de Montaigne

There never were in the world two opinions alike, no more than two hairs or two grains; the most universal quality is diversity.

Michel de Montaigne

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

Michel de Montaigne

He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.

Michel de Montaigne

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

Michel de Montaigne

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened

Michel de Montaigne

It should be noted that the games of children are not games, and must be considered as their most serious actions.