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“Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.”

Michel De Montaigne

Book II, Ch. 17
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“Saying is one thing and doing is another.”

Michel De Montaigne book Essays

Book II, Ch. 31
Essais (1595), Book II

“We trouble our life by thoughts about death, and our death by thoughts about life.”

Michel De Montaigne

Source: The Essays: A Selection

“Other people do not see you at all, but guess at you by uncertain conjectures.”

Michel De Montaigne

Source: The Complete Essays

“It is a disaster that wisdom forbids you to be satisfied with yourself and always sends you away dissatisfied and fearful, whereas stubbornness and foolhardiness fill their hosts with joy and assurance.”

Michel De Montaigne

Source: The Complete Essays

“The thing I fear most is fear.”

Michel De Montaigne

C'est de quoi j'ai le plus de peur que la peur.
Book I, ch, 18
Essais (1595), Book I
Source: The Complete Essays

“Judgement can do without knowledge: but not knowledge without judgement.”

Michel De Montaigne

Source: The Complete Essays

“Valor is strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul; it consists not in the worth of our horse or our weapons, but in our own.”

Michel De Montaigne

Source: Cannibales

“Life itself is neither a good nor an evil: life is where good or evil find a place, depending on how you make it for them.”

Michel De Montaigne

Source: The Essays: A Selection

“I had rather fashion my mind than furnish it.”

Michel De Montaigne

“I want us to be doing things, prolonging life's duties as much as we can. I want death to find me planting my cabbages, neither worrying about it nor the unfinished gardening.”

Michel De Montaigne

“The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.”

Michel De Montaigne

Source: The Complete Essays

“To distract myself from tiresome thoughts, I have only to resort to books; they easily draw my mind to themselves and away from other things.”

Michel De Montaigne

“Kings and philosophers defecate, and so do ladies.”

Michel De Montaigne

Variant: Kings and philosophers shit—and so do ladies.

“Let every foot have its own shoe.”

Michel De Montaigne

Source: The Essays: A Selection

“Pride and curiosity are the two scourges of our souls. The latter prompts us to poke our noses into everything, and the former forbids us to leave anything unresolved and undecided.”

Michel De Montaigne

Source: The Essays: A Selection

“There is no more expensive thing than a free gift.”

Michel De Montaigne