Michel De Montaigne Quotes

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
My trade and art is to live.
No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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.
One may be humble out of pride.
Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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 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.
The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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