Famous Quotes

Quotes by Michel De Montaigne

• The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
• The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
• The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
• The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
• The thing I fear most is fear.
• The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
• There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
• There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
• There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
• There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
• There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.
• There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
• Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.