The Essays of Michel de Montaigne Quotes

“The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear”

― Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

topic:fear

“Valour is stability, not of legs and arms, but of the courage and the soul; it does not lie in the goodness of our horse or our arms but in our own.”

― Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

topic:strengthcouragesoul

“I am afraid our eyes are bigger than our bellies, and that we have more curiosity than capacity; for we grasp at all, but catch nothing but wind.”

― Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

topic:understanding

“We only labour to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.”

― Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

topic:understandingmemory

“the arms of friendship are long enough to reach from the one end of the world to the other”

― Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

topic:friendship

“I so much love to disengage and disobligate myself, that I have sometimes looked upon ingratitudes, affronts, and indignities which I have received from those to whom either by nature or accident I was bound in some way of friendship, as an...”

― Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

topic:friendship

“The least forced and most natural motions of the soul are the most beautiful; the best employments, those that are least strained.”

― Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

topic:beautysoul

“The most manifest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness”

― Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

topic:wisdomjoy

“Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.”

― Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

topic:wisdomstupiditysuffering

“Nature is a gentle guide, but not more sweet and gentle than prudent and just.”

― Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

topic:nature