1,152 Quotes by Michel de Montaigne

If you don’t know how to die, don’t worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.

Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.

In my opinion, every rich man is a miser.

And one might therefore say of me that in this book I have only made up a bunch of other people’s flowers, and that of my own I have only provided the string that ties them together.

In nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.

We are all of us richer than we think we are; but we are taught to borrow and to beg, and brought up more to make use of what is another’s than of our own.

I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man’s estate.

Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.

It’s not victory if it doesn’t end the war.