23 Michel de Montaigne Quotes on Life

Michel de Montaigne quotes on life

4. As for extraordinary things, all the provision in the world would not suffice.

8. Je veux que la mort me trouve plantant mes choux.

9. All the opinions in the world point out that pleasure is our aim.

10. He who would teach men to die would teach them to live.

11. The day of your birth leads you to death as well as to life.

12. Live as long as you please, you will strike nothing off the time you will have to spend dead.

13. Wherever your life ends, it is all there. The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some men have lived long, and lived little; attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough.

14. All of the days go toward death and the last one arrives there.

23. La plus grande chose du monde, c'est de savoir etre a soi.

26. Mon metier et mon art, c'est vivre.

32. Ceux qui ont apparie notre vie a un songe ont eu de la raison...Nous veillons dormants et veillants dormons.

39. I speak the truth, not my fill of it, but as much as I dare speak; and I dare to do so a little more as I grow old.

41. Chaque homme porte la forme, entiere de l'humaine condition.

68. Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.

89. It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.

94. Labour not after riches first, and think thou afterwards wilt enjoy them. He who neglecteth the present moment, throweth away all that he hath. As the arrow passeth through the heart, while the warrior knew not that it was coming; so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

109. Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.

115. The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.

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

122. The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

124. The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.

125. The world is but a perpetual see-saw.

142. Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself.