Michel de Montaigne Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. I listen with attention to the judgment of all men;but so far as I can remember,I have followed none but my own.

2. I quote others only in order the better to express myself. The Complete Essays

3. If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I. The Complete Essays

4. 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. The Complete Essays

5. Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own. The Complete Essays

6. Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents. The Complete Essays

7. The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar. The Complete Essays

8. There is indeed a certain sense of gratification when we do a good deed that gives us inward satisfaction, and a generous pride that accompanies a good conscience…These testimonies of a good conscience are pleasant; and such a natural pleasure is very beneficial to us; it is the only payment that can never fail. On Repentance

9. There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened.

10. Why do people respect the package rather than the man? The Complete Essays

11. [Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out. The Complete Essays

12. Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness. The Complete Essays

13. Judgement can do without knowledge: but not knowledge without judgement. The Complete Essays

14. Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own. The Complete Essays

15. Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know. The Complete Essays

16. quote about goodnessConfidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.

17. 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. The Complete Essays

18. There is an abecedarian ignorance that precedes knowledge, and a doctoral ignorance that comes after it

19. There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent. The Complete Essays

20. We must not attach knowledge to the mind, we have to incorporate it there. The Complete Essays