“Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness.”
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Famous Michel de Montaigne Quotes
Source: The Essays of Michel de Montaigne
“We need to interpret interpretations more than to interpret things.”
“Kings and philosophers defecate, and so do ladies.”
Source: Essays
“No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.”
“On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.”
“~The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them ~”
Source: Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays
Source: Complete Essays
Source: Complete Essays
“There are no truths, only moments of claryty passing for answers.”
“Experience has further taught me this, that we ruin ourselves by impatience.”
Source: Essays and Selected Writings
“The reverse side of truth has a hundred thousand shapes and no defined limits.”
Source: The Essays of Michel de Montaigne
Source: Complete Essays
Source: Essayes
“Live as long as you please, you will strike nothing off the time you will have to spend dead.”
Source: Complete Essays
“A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.”
Source: Autobiography: Comprising the Life of the Wisest Man of His Times ...
“I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.”
Source: All the Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne
“Wisdom has its excesses, and has no less need of moderation than folly.”
Source: Essays:
Source: Complete Essays
“Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately.”
Source: Complete Essays
Source: The Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne: Translated Into English
“We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.”
Source: All the Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne
“Those things that are dearest to us have cost us the most.”
Source: The Essays
“Oh these foolish men! They could not create so much as a worm, but they create gods by the dozens.”
“We are more unhappy to see people ahead of us than happy to see people behind us.”
Source: The Complete Essays of Montaigne
“It needs courage to be afraid.”
Source: The Essays
“I have gathered a posy of other menÂ’s flowers and only the thread that bonds them is my own.”
“The oldest and best known evil was ever more supportable than one that was new and untried.”
Source: Essays:
“The lack of wealth is easily repaired but the poverty of the soul is irreplaceable.”
“All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly.”
Source: The Autobiography of Michel de Montaigne: Comprising the Life of the Wisest Man of His Times : His Childhood, Youth, and Prime : His Adventures in Love and Marriage, at Court, and in Office, War, Revolution, and Plague : His Travels at Home and Abroad : His Habits, Tastes, Whims, and Opinions
Source: Essays
“Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.”
“Tis so much to be a king, that he only is so by being so.”
Source: All the Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne
“Meditation is a rich and powerful method of study for anyone who knows how to examine his mind.”
Source: Essays
Source: Essays of Montaigne
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