Quotes by Michel de Montaigne

No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.

There is no man so good who were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.

He who does not live in some degree for others hardly lives for himself.

Oh what a valiant faculty is hope.

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.

Whatever is enforced by command is more imputed to him who exacts than to him who performs.

The highest wisdom is continual cheerfulness such a state like the region above the moon is always clear and serene.

No doctor takes pleasure in the health even of his friends.

It is commonly seen by experience that excellent memories do often accompany weak judgements.

The beauty of stature is the only beauty of men.

No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged.

Fear desire hope still push us on toward the future.

Desire and hope will push us on toward the future.

The value of life lies not in the length of days but in the use we make of them a man may live long yet live very little.

There never were two opinions alike in all the world no more than two hours or two grains: the most universal quality is diversity.

There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order method and discipline.

Diogenes was asked what wine he liked best and he answered Somebody elses.

Philosophy is doubt.

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

There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God.