Michel de Montaigne

What a man hates, he takes seriously.

Michel de Montaigne

Whatever are the benefits of fortune, they yet require a palate fit to relish and taste them.

Michel de Montaigne

When I am attached by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

Michel de Montaigne

When I express my opinions it is so as to reveal the measure of my sight not the measure of the thing.

Michel de Montaigne

Whether the events in our life are good or bad, greatly depends on the way we perceive them.

Michel de Montaigne

Wisdom has its excesses, and has no less need of moderation than folly.

Michel de Montaigne

Wise men have more to learn of fools than fools of wise men.

Michel de Montaigne