On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.
- Michel de Montaigne
More Quotes By Michel de Montaigne
- The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
- We must learn to endure what we cannot avoid. Our life is composed, like the harmony of the...
- The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of...
- Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
- My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
- A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
- There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
- Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits,...
- A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
- Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally...
- We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays its...
- ~The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of...
- The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation.
- The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
- There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man,...
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