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Michel de Montaigne Quotes about Character

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The lack of wealth is easily repaired but the poverty of the soul is irreplaceable.

The lack of wealth is easily repaired but the poverty of the soul is irreplaceable.

Michel de Montaigne
Inspirational, Character, Soul

To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquility in our conduct. Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately. All other things, ruling, hoarding, building, are only little appendages and props, at most.

Michel de Montaigne
Book, Character, Winning
Michel de Montaigne (1948). “Selections from the essays of Michel Eyquem de Montaigne”

Courtesy is a science of the highest importance. It is...opening a door that we may derive instruction from the example of others, and at the same time enabling us to benefit them by our example, if there be anything in our character worthy of imitation.

Michel de Montaigne
Character, Doors, Example
Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, 1595.

To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquillity in our conduct.

Michel de Montaigne
Book, Character, Winning
Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.14, Stanford University Press

Most of our occupations are low comedy.... We must play our part duly, but as the part of a borrowed character. Of the mask and appearance we must not make a real essence, nor of what is foreign what is our very own.

Michel de Montaigne
Real, Character, Essence
Michel de Montaigne (2003). “The Complete Works: Essays, Travel Journal, Letters”, Everyman's Library

One man may have some special knowledge at first-hand about the character of a river or a spring, who otherwise knows only what everyone else knows. Yet to give currency to this shred of information, he will undertake to write on the whole science of physics. From this fault many great troubles spring.

Michel de Montaigne
Spring, Writing, Character
Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Essays”

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