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Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
Autobiographer
Essayist
French Moralist
Jurist
Philosopher
Poet Lawyer
Politician
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
Away
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Time
Steals
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Stealing
More quotes by Michel de Montaigne
It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
Michel de Montaigne
Glory consists of two parts: the one in setting too great a value upon ourselves, and the other in setting too little a value upon others.
Michel de Montaigne
It is easier to sacrifice great than little things.
Michel de Montaigne
There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.
Michel de Montaigne
Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
Michel de Montaigne
One should be ever booted and spurred and ready to depart.
Michel de Montaigne
I see this evident, that we willingly accord to piety only the services that flatter our passions.
Michel de Montaigne
Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope.
Michel de Montaigne
Happiness involves working toward meaningful goals.
Michel de Montaigne
~The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them ~
Michel de Montaigne
The daughter-in-law of Pythagoras said that a woman who goes to bed with a man ought to lay aside her modesty with her skirt, and put it on again with her petticoat
Michel de Montaigne
Meditation is a powerful and full study as can effectually taste and employ themselves.
Michel de Montaigne
We are all of us richer than we think we are but we are taught to borrow and to beg, and brought up more to make use of what is another's than of our own.
Michel de Montaigne
The perpetual work of your life is but to lay the foundation of death.
Michel de Montaigne
To how many blockheads of my time has a cold and taciturn demeanor procured the credit of prudence and capacity!
Michel de Montaigne
Necessity is a violent school-mistress.
Michel de Montaigne
Judgement can do without knowledge: but not knowledge without judgement.
Michel de Montaigne
The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
Michel de Montaigne
When Socrates, after being relieved of his irons, felt the relish of the itching that their weight had caused in his legs, he rejoiced to consider the close alliance between pain and pleasure.
Michel de Montaigne
Gentleness and repose are paramount to everything else in woman.
Michel de Montaigne
