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Michel de Montaigne quotes about life
We need but little learning to live happily.
— Michel de Montaigne
[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.
— Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
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, The Complete Essays
Antigonus, having taken one of his soldiers into a great degree of favor and esteem for his valor, gave his physicians strict charge to cure him of a long and inward disease under which he had a great while languished, and observing that, after his cure, he went much more coldly to work than before, he asked him what had so altered and cowed him: “Yourself, sir, ” replied the other, “by having eased me of the pains that made me weary of my life.
— Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
The natural heat, say the good-fellows, first seats itself in the feet: that concerns infancy; thence it mounts into the middleregion, where it makes a long abode and produces, in my opinion, the sole true pleasures of human life; all other pleasures in comparison sleep; towards the end, like a vapor that still mounts upward, it arrives at the throat, where it makes its final residence, and concludes the progress.
— Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
He lives happy and master of himself who can say as each day passes on, “I have lived.
— Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
Without doubt, it is a delightful harmony when doing and saying go together.
— Michel de Montaigne
We are all lumps, and of so various and inform a contexture, that every piece plays, every moment, its own game, and there is as much difference betwixt us and ourselves as betwixt us and others.
— Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
— Michel de Montaigne
We trouble our life by thoughts about death, and our death by thoughts about life.
— Michel de Montaigne, The Essays: A Selection
Tis no wonder, says one of the ancients, that chance has so great a dominion over us, since it is by chance we live.
— Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to live with purpose.
— Michel de Montaigne
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