Michel de Montaigne Quotes

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne

Marriage, Good, Husband

If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
Michel de Montaigne

The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
Michel de Montaigne

Life, Find, Days

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
Michel de Montaigne

Yourself, Give, Others

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
Michel de Montaigne

Forget, Nothing, Wish

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
Michel de Montaigne

Marriage, Love, Friendship

Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
Michel de Montaigne

Best, Stupidity, Opinion

It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.
Michel de Montaigne

Find, Same, Reason

The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
Michel de Montaigne

Beautiful, Ready, Open

I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
Michel de Montaigne

Seen, Miracle, Greater

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
Michel de Montaigne

Marriage, Desperate, Inside

Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity.
Michel de Montaigne

Confidence, Integrity, Honesty

There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
Michel de Montaigne

Boring, Everybody

There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.
Michel de Montaigne

Communication, Alone, Mind

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
Michel de Montaigne

Suffering, Fears

Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
Michel de Montaigne

Liberty, Youth, Leave

I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
Michel de Montaigne

Care, Rich, Others

I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
Michel de Montaigne

Study, Physics, Subject

I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.
Michel de Montaigne

Truth, Speak, Older

It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
Michel de Montaigne

Intelligence, Good, Brain

Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.
Michel de Montaigne

Good, Confidence, Another

I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
Michel de Montaigne

Others, Order, Express

He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
Michel de Montaigne

Reason, Weak, Shows

I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
Michel de Montaigne

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.
Michel de Montaigne

Soul, Others, Once

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Philosopher

Born: February 28, 1533

Died: September 13, 1592

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