Michel de Montaigne Quotes

I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
Michel de Montaigne

Often, Seen, Courtesy

I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man's estate.
Michel de Montaigne

Life, Humble, Philosophy

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.
Michel de Montaigne

Nature, Job, Die

Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
Michel de Montaigne

Ignorance, Rest, Head

It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
Michel de Montaigne

Good, Happy, Mind

Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
Michel de Montaigne

Speak, Shame, Ashamed

Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
Michel de Montaigne

Marriage, Nothing, Free

My trade and art is to live.
Michel de Montaigne

Art, Live, Trade

No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
Michel de Montaigne

Him, Wind, Voyage

Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
Michel de Montaigne

Able, Events, Govern

Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
Michel de Montaigne

Nothing, Believed, Firmly

Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
Michel de Montaigne

Despise, Savage

One may be humble out of pride.
Michel de Montaigne

Humble, May, Pride

The thing I fear most is fear.
Michel de Montaigne

The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
Michel de Montaigne

There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
Michel de Montaigne

Good, Makes, Ourselves

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
Michel de Montaigne

Fear, Passion, Contagious

There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
Michel de Montaigne

Write, Perhaps, Vanity

A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
Michel de Montaigne

Wise, Himself, Loses

An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
Michel de Montaigne

Woman, Cannot, Her

Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
Michel de Montaigne

Nature, End, Last

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
Michel de Montaigne

Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.
Michel de Montaigne

Love, Learning, Sports

Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
Michel de Montaigne

Human, Whole, Condition

Few men have been admired of their familiars.
Michel de Montaigne

Men, Few, Admired

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Philosopher

Born: February 28, 1533

Died: September 13, 1592

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