Michel de Montaigne Quotes

French - Philosopher | February 28, 1533 - September 13, 1592

The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Michel de Montaigne

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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.

Michel de Montaigne

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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.

Michel de Montaigne

SpeakThinkShameAshamedUsLet Us

When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.

Michel de Montaigne

MePlayMoreSheCatHer

The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.

Michel de Montaigne

UglyMeFindDareWorstSeem

The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.

Michel de Montaigne

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

Michel de Montaigne

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The thing I fear most is fear.

Michel de Montaigne

FearMostThing

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

Michel de Montaigne

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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.

Michel de Montaigne

MyselfManMeLovedFeelHim

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

Michel de Montaigne

SufferWhoHeShallFearsSuffers

The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.

Michel de Montaigne

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