Michel de Montaigne Quotes - Page 4
One should always have one's boots on and be ready to leave.
We trouble our life by thoughts about death, and our death by thoughts about life.
Though we may be learned by another's knowledge, we can never be wise but by our own experience.
Wise men have more to learn of fools than fools of wise men.
A man must not always tell all, for that be folly; but what a man says should be what he thinks.
Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.
Experience has further taught me this, that we ruin ourselves by impatience.
All of the days go toward death and the last one arrives there.
I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
The most evident token and apparent sign of true wisdom is a constant and unconstrained rejoicing.
~The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them ~
