Quotes by Michel de Montaigne
8 quotes by Michel de Montaigne (died 1592), taken from Essays. Each is given word for word, with its work, its passage and its source.
Essays
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“The most manifest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness; her state is like that of things in the regions above the moon, always clear and serene.”
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“The greatest thing in the world is for a man to know that he is his own.”
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“We must reserve a backshop, wholly our own and entirely free, wherein to settle our true liberty, our principal solitude and retreat.”
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“If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.”
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“There is nothing so fine and legitimate as well and duly to play the man; nor science so arduous as well and naturally to know how to live this life.”
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“'Tis an absolute and, as it were, a divine perfection, for a man to know how loyally to enjoy his being.”
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“The fairest lives, in my opinion, are those which regularly accommodate themselves to the common and human model without miracle, without extravagance.”
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“There can be 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 communicate it to.”