Michel de Montaigne

Don’t discuss yourself, for you are bound to lose; if you belittle yourself, you are believed; if you praise yourself, you are disbelieved.

Michel de Montaigne

Dreams are faithful interpreters of our inclinations; but there is art required to sort and understand them.

Michel de Montaigne

Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.

Michel de Montaigne

Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness.

Michel de Montaigne

Experience has further taught me this, that we ruin ourselves by impatience.

Michel de Montaigne

Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.

Michel de Montaigne

Getting married is very much like going to a restaurant with friends. You order what you want then when you see what the other person has, you wish you had ordered that.

Michel de Montaigne

He who falls obstinate in his courage, if he falls he fights from his knees.

Michel de Montaigne

Health is a precious thing, and the only one, in truth, meriting that a man should lay out not only his time, sweat, labor and goods, but also life itself to obtain it.

Michel de Montaigne

I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.

Michel de Montaigne