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“Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.”

Michel De Montaigne

Attributed

“As far as physicians go, chance is more valuable than knowledge.”

Michel De Montaigne book Essays

Book II, Ch. 37
Essais (1595), Book II

“He who would teach men to die would teach them to live.”

Michel De Montaigne book Essays

Book I, Ch. 20
Essais (1595), Book I
Variant: He who should teach men to die would at the same time teach them to live.

“A man of understanding has lost nothing, if he has himself.”

Michel De Montaigne book Essays

L'homme d'entendement n'a rien perdu, s'il a soi-même.
Book I, Ch. 39
Essais (1595), Book I

“A true prayer and religious reconciling of ourselves to Almighty God cannot enter into an impure soul, subject at the very time to the dominion of Satan. He who calls God to his assistance whilst in a course of vice, does as if a cut-purse should call a magistrate to help him, or like those who introduce the name of God to the attestation of a lie.”

Michel De Montaigne book Essays

Book I, Ch. 56. Of Prayers
Essais (1595), Book I

“A man may be humble through vainglory.”

Michel De Montaigne book Essays

Book II, Ch. 17
Essais (1595), Book II

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

Michel De Montaigne

Book I, Ch. 25
Attributed

“T is one and the same Nature that rolls on her course, and whoever has sufficiently considered the present state of things might certainly conclude as to both the future and the past.”

Michel De Montaigne book Essays

Book II, Ch. 12. Apology for Raimond Sebond
Essais (1595), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“As for extraordinary things, all the provision in the world would not suffice.”

Michel De Montaigne book Essays

Book I, Ch. 14
Essais (1595), Book I

“Wherever your life ends, it is all there. The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some men have lived long, and lived little; attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough.”

Michel De Montaigne book Essays

Book I, Ch. 20
Essais (1595), Book I

“He that I am reading seems always to have the most force.”

Michel De Montaigne book Essays

Book II, Ch. 12. Apology for Raimond Sebond
Essais (1595), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“What of a truth that is bounded by these mountains and is falsehood to the world that lives beyond?”

Michel De Montaigne book Essays

Quelle vérité que ces montagnes bornent, qui est mensonge qui se tient au delà?
Book II, Ch. 12
Essais (1595), Book II

“There is the name and the thing: the name is a voice which denotes and signifies the thing; the name is no part of the thing, nor of the substance; 'tis a foreign piece joined to the thing, and outside it. God, who is all fulness in Himself and the height of all perfection, cannot augment or add anything to Himself within; but His name may be augmented and increased by the blessing and praise we attribute to His exterior works: which praise, seeing we cannot incorporate it in Him, forasmuch as He can have no accession of good, we attribute to His name, which is the part out of Him that is nearest to us. Thus is it that to God alone glory and honour appertain; and there is nothing so remote from reason as that we should go in quest of it for ourselves; for, being indigent and necessitous within, our essence being imperfect, and having continual need of amelioration, 'tis to that we ought to employ all our endeavour.”

Michel De Montaigne book Essays

Book II, Ch. 16
Essais (1595), Book II

“The day of your birth leads you to death as well as to life.”

Michel De Montaigne book Essays

Book I, Ch. 20
Essais (1595), Book I

“All the world knows me in my book, and my book in me.”

Michel De Montaigne book Essays

Book III, Ch. 5. Upon some Verses of Virgil
Essais (1595), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“The most manifest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness; her state is like that in the regions above the moon, always clear and serene.”

Michel De Montaigne

Book I, Ch. 26
Attributed
Variant: The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

“Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.”

Michel De Montaigne

Book III, Ch. 2
Attributed

“We are, I know not how, double in ourselves, so that what we believe we disbelieve, and cannot rid ourselves of what we condemn.”

Michel De Montaigne

As quoted in The Complete Works of Michael de Montaigne (1877) edited by William Carew Hazlitt, p. 289

“Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.”

Michel De Montaigne

Attributed

“The oldest and best known evil was ever more supportable than one that was new and untried.”

Michel De Montaigne book Essays

Book III, Ch. 9. Of Vanity
Essais (1595), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)