Famous Michel de Montaigne Quotes

  • If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways. – Michel de Montaigne

    If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.– Michel de Montaigne

  • Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health. – Michel de Montaigne

    Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.– Michel de Montaigne

  • The greatest thing in the world is to know how to live to yourself. – Michel de Montaigne

    The greatest thing in the world is to know how to live to yourself.– Michel de Montaigne

  • A man with nothing to lend should refrain from borrowing. – Michel de Montaigne

    A man with nothing to lend should refrain from borrowing.– Michel de Montaigne

  • I…think it much more supportable to be always alone, than never to be so. – Michel de Montaigne

    I…think it much more supportable to be always alone, than never to be so.– Michel de Montaigne

  • To an atheist all writings tend to atheism: he corrupts the most innocent matter with his own venom. – Michel de Montaigne

    To an atheist all writings tend to atheism: he corrupts the most innocent matter with his own venom.– Michel de Montaigne

  • Our zeal works wonders, whenever it supports our inclination toward hatred, cruelty, ambition. – Michel de Montaigne

    Our zeal works wonders, whenever it supports our inclination toward hatred, cruelty, ambition.– Michel de Montaigne

  • There is no passion so much transports thesincerity of judgement as doth anger – Michel de Montaigne

    There is no passion so much transports thesincerity of judgement as doth anger– Michel de Montaigne

  • All we do is to look after the opinions and learning of others: we ought to make them our own. – Michel de Montaigne

    All we do is to look after the opinions and learning of others: we ought to make them our own.– Michel de Montaigne

  • Certainly, if he still has himself, a man of understanding has lost nothing. – Michel de Montaigne

    Certainly, if he still has himself, a man of understanding has lost nothing.– Michel de Montaigne