Famous Quotes / Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
187 Quotations by Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
- 141. The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
- 142. The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
- 143. The strength of any plan depends on the time. Circumstances and things eternally shift and change.
- 144. The thing I fear most is fear.
- 145. The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
- 146. The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise.
- 147. The word is half his that speaks, and half his that hears it.
- 148. The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not t ...
- 149. The worthiest man to be known, and for a pattern to be presented to the world, he is the man of whom ...
- 150. There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God.
- 151. There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
- 152. There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
- 153. There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
- 154. There is no course of life so weak and Scottish as that which is ordered by orders, method, and disc ...
- 155. There is no greater enemy to those who would please than expectation.
- 156. There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thoughts under the scrutiny of the law ...
- 157. There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
- 158. There is no passion so much transports the sincerity of judgment as cloth anger.
- 159. There is no pleasure to me without communication; there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes ...
- 160. There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an ent ...