Michel de Montaigne Quotes & Sayings (Page 10)

“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.”

“One may be humble out of pride.”

“If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.”

“Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.”

“I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.”

“Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.”

“It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.”

“My trade and art is to live.”

“There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.”

“Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.”