Michel de Montaigne

"A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband."

- Michel de Montaigne

"My life has been full of terrible misfortunes, most of which never happened."

- Michel de Montaigne

"My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened."

- Michel de Montaigne

"There is no passion so contagious as that of fear."

- Michel de Montaigne

"He who fears he will suffer, already suffers because he fears."

- Michel de Montaigne

"It should be noted that the games of children are not games, and must be considered as their most serious actions."

- Michel de Montaigne

"The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself."

- Michel de Montaigne

"I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself."

- Michel de Montaigne

"On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom."

- Michel de Montaigne

"I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of."

- Michel de Montaigne

"A man is not hurt so much by what happens, as by his opinion of what happens."

- Michel de Montaigne

"If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways."

- Michel de Montaigne

"Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul."

- Michel de Montaigne

"Valor is the strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul."

- Michel de Montaigne

"Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do."

- Michel de Montaigne

"When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep?"

- Michel de Montaigne

"Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself."

- Michel de Montaigne

"He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears."

- Michel de Montaigne

"The greatest thing in the world is for a man to know that he is his own."

- Michel de Montaigne

"The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere."

- Michel de Montaigne

"To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character."

- Michel de Montaigne