Michel de Montaigne Quotes

  • Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools  wise, has made them lucky.Upload to Facebook
    Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
    ~ Michel de Montaigne
  • Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.Upload to Facebook
    Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.
    ~ Michel de Montaigne
  • Confidence in the goodness of others is no slight testimony to one's own goodness, and so God gladly favours it.Upload to Facebook
    Confidence in the goodness of others is no slight testimony to one's own goodness, and so God gladly favours it.
    ~ Michel de Montaigne
  • I will be rich by myself and not by borrowing.
    ~ Michel de Montaigne
  • If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
    ~ Michel de Montaigne
  • He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
    ~ Michel de Montaigne
  • Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
    ~ Michel de Montaigne
  • Meditation is a rich and powerful method of study for anyone who knows how to examine his mind.
    ~ Michel de Montaigne
  • My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
    ~ Michel de Montaigne
  • I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
    ~ Michel de Montaigne
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