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

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
Michel de Montaigne

My trade and art is to live.
Michel de Montaigne

No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
Michel de Montaigne

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

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

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

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

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

Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
Michel de Montaigne

One may be humble out of pride.
Michel de Montaigne

Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
Michel de Montaigne

Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
Michel de Montaigne

Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
Michel de Montaigne

The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
Michel de Montaigne

The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
Michel de Montaigne

The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
Michel de Montaigne

The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.
Michel de Montaigne

The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
Michel de Montaigne

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
Michel de Montaigne