Michel de Montaigne

No wind favors he who has no destined port.

Michel de Montaigne

Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and apply myself to them if they will not apply themselves to me.

Michel de Montaigne

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

Michel de Montaigne

Opinion is a powerful party, bold, and without measure.

Michel de Montaigne

Pleasure itself is painful at the bottom.

Michel de Montaigne

Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.

Michel de Montaigne

Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge ourselves with railing against it.

Michel de Montaigne

The births of all things are weak and tender and therefore we should have our eyes intent on beginnings.

Michel de Montaigne

The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.

Michel de Montaigne

The greater part of the world’s troubles are due to questions of grammar.

Michel de Montaigne