Quote

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 I.

Michel de Montaigne

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
Autobiographer
Essayist
French Moralist
Jurist
Philosopher
Poet Lawyer
Politician
Translator
Writer
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
Love
Life
Confused
Presses
Press
Friendship
Positive
Loved

More quotes by Michel de Montaigne

Image
There is nothing of evil in life for him who rightly comprehends that death is no evil to know how to die delivers us from all subjection and constraint.
Michel de Montaigne
Image
'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
Michel de Montaigne
Image
Virtue shuns ease as a companion. It demands a rough and thorny path.
Michel de Montaigne
Image
The continuous work of our life is to build death.
Michel de Montaigne
Image
Examples teach us that in military affairs, and all others of a like nature, study is apt to enervate and relax the courage of man, rather than to give strength and energy to the mind.
Michel de Montaigne
Image
My errors are by now natural and incorrigible but the good that worthy men do the public by making themselves imitable, I shall perhaps do by making myself evitable.
Michel de Montaigne
Image
Our own peculiar human condition is that we are as fit to be laughed at as able to laugh.
Michel de Montaigne
Image
We call comeliness a mischance in the first respect, which belongs principally to the face.
Michel de Montaigne
Image
If health and a fair day smile upon me, I am a very good fellow if a corn trouble my toe, I am sullen, out of humor, and inaccessible.
Michel de Montaigne
Image
A hair shirt does not always render those chaste who wear it.
Michel de Montaigne
Image
Rejoice in the things that are present all else is beyond thee.
Michel de Montaigne
Image
Philosophical discussions habitually make men happy and joyful not frowning and sad.
Michel de Montaigne
Image
The world is but a perennial movement. All things in it are in constant motion-the earth, the rocks of the Caucasus, the pyramids of Egypt-both with the common motion and with their own.
Michel de Montaigne
Image
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
Image
The only thing certain is nothing is certain.
Michel de Montaigne
Image
If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
Michel de Montaigne
Image
The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear, and with good reason that passion alone, in the trouble of it, exceeding all other accidents
Michel de Montaigne
Image
The most ordinary things, the most common and familiar, if we could see them in their true light, would turn out to be the grandest miracles.
Michel de Montaigne
Image
The body enjoys a great share in our being, and has an eminent place in it. Its structure and composition, therefore, are worthy of proper consideration.
Michel de Montaigne
Image
The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.
Michel de Montaigne