Michel de Montaigne

We find our energies are actually cramped when we are overanxious to succeed.

Michel de Montaigne

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Michel de Montaigne

A learned man is not learned in all things; but a sufficient man is sufficient throughout, even to ignorance itself.

Michel de Montaigne

A man is not hurt so much by what happens, as by his opinion of what happens.

Michel de Montaigne

A man must not always tell all, for that be folly; but what a man says should be what he thinks.

Michel de Montaigne

A man of understanding has lost nothing, if he has himself.

Michel de Montaigne

A man should ever be ready booted to take his journey.

Michel de Montaigne

A man should not so much respect what he eats, as with whom he eats.

Michel de Montaigne

A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.

Michel de Montaigne

A strong imagination begetteth opportunity.

Michel de Montaigne