“Saying is one thing and doing is another.” – Michel de Montaigne
“Learned we may be with another man’s learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.” – Michel de Montaigne
“Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.” – Michel de Montaigne
“The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation.” – Michel de Montaigne
“There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened.” – Michel de Montaigne
“Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.” – Michel de Montaigne
“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.” – Michel de Montaigne
“There is no knowledge so hard to acquire as the knowledge of how to live this life well and naturally.” – Michel de Montaigne
“He who establishes his argument by noise and command, shows that his reason is weak.” – Michel de Montaigne
“No wind favors he who has no destined port.” – Michel de Montaigne
“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
“The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to live with purpose.” – Michel de Montaigne
“A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.” – Michel de Montaigne
“Experience has further taught me this, that we ruin ourselves by impatience.” – Michel de Montaigne
“All permanent decisions are made in a temporary state of mind.” – Michel de Montaigne
