Michel de Montaigne Quotes

• Men are tormented by the opinions they have of things and not the things themselves.
• Valor is stability not of legs and arms but of courage and the soul.
• I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
• A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
• There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
• A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
• Arrogance is composed of too high opinion about oneself.
• There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
• Ambition is not a vice of little people.
• A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
• Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.
• We suffer not because something bad happens but because of how we analyze the situation.
• Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end.