Author Topic: ~ Michel de Montaigne Quotes ~ (Read 3066 times)

MysteRy · « **Reply #45 on:** May 06, 2015, 07:58:10 PM »

Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake and waking sleep.

MysteRy · « **Reply #46 on:** May 06, 2015, 07:58:39 PM »

If you press me to say why I loved him I can say no more than it was because he was he and I was 1.

MysteRy · « **Reply #47 on:** May 06, 2015, 07:59:04 PM »

If there is such a thing as a good marriage it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

MysteRy · « **Reply #48 on:** May 06, 2015, 07:59:31 PM »

There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order method and discipline.

MysteRy · « **Reply #49 on:** May 06, 2015, 08:00:06 PM »

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

MysteRy · « **Reply #50 on:** May 06, 2015, 08:00:35 PM »

Riches like glory or health have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleased to lend them.

MysteRy · « **Reply #51 on:** May 06, 2015, 08:01:01 PM »

I speak the truth not so much as I would but as much as I dare; and I dare a little more as I grow older.

MysteRy · « **Reply #52 on:** May 06, 2015, 08:01:31 PM »

I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself and not by borrowing.

MysteRy · « **Reply #53 on:** May 06, 2015, 08:02:02 PM »

We undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits their sickness and their health.

MysteRy · « **Reply #54 on:** May 06, 2015, 08:02:31 PM »

When I religiously confess myself to myself I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice.

MysteRy · « **Reply #55 on:** May 06, 2015, 08:02:58 PM »

No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged.

MysteRy · « **Reply #56 on:** May 06, 2015, 08:03:35 PM »

The highest wisdom is continual cheerfulness; such a state like the region above the moon is always clear and serene.

MysteRy · « **Reply #57 on:** May 06, 2015, 08:04:01 PM »

The value of life lies not in the length of days but in the use we make of them; a man may live long yet live very little.

MysteRy · « **Reply #58 on:** May 06, 2015, 08:04:29 PM »

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.

MysteRy · « **Reply #59 on:** May 06, 2015, 08:04:58 PM »

Greatness of soul consists not so much in soaring high and in pressing forward as in knowing how to adapt and limit oneself.

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