Inspiration Quote by Michel de Montaigne — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Though the ancient poet in Plutarch tells us we must not trouble the gods with our affairs because they take no heed of our angers and disputes, we can never enough decry the disorderly sallies of our minds.”

“There is an abecedarian ignorance that precedes knowledge, and a doctoral ignorance that comes after it”

“I, who boast of embracing the pleasures of life so assiduously and so particularly, find in them, when I look at them thus minutely, virtually nothing but wind. But what of it? We are all wind.”

“If it be well weighed, to say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God and a coward towards men.”

“Why do people respect the package rather than the man?”

“We cannot be held to promises beyond our power or our means. That is why - since nothing is really in our power but our will - it is on the will that all the rules and duties of Man are based and established.”

“We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.”

“The road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination; it is essentially a part of it.”

“To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as ones own in the midst of abundance.”

“I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.”

“Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.”

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.”