Michel de Montaigne Quotes

A thousand roads diverge from the chosen end, but there is one that reaches it.

I find as much difference between myself and myself as between myself and others.

Knowing much gives occasion to doubt more.

Books are the best provision I have found for this human journey.

Children's games are not just games, but their most serious activities.

Death does not concern you, neither alive nor dead: alive, because you are; dead, because you are no more.

The coward only threatens when he is safe.

It is necessary to lend oneself to others, but to give oneself only to oneself.

I only quote others in order to express my thoughts better.

Nothing seems so true that it cannot seem false.

No benefit is ever achieved without harming another.

Laws maintain their credit not because they are just, but because they are laws.