Quotes from Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

How many things which served us yesterday as articles of faith, are fables for us today.

Riches, like glory or heath, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleased to lend them.

The finest lives, in my opinion, are those who rank in the common model, and with the human race, but without miracle, without extravagance.

The greatest thing in the world is for a man to know how to be himself.

The want of goods is easily repaired, but the poverty of the soul is irreparable.

There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline.

There never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains the most universal quality is diversity.

To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death.

To philosophize is to doubt.

We are born to inquire into truth; it belongs to a greater to possess it.

We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.