Tis no wonder, says one of the ancients, that chance has so great a dominion over us, since it is by chance we live.
Weitere Zitate von Michel de Montaigne
Zum Autor"A man must live in the world and make the best of it such as it is."
"A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband."
"We undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits their sickness and their health."
"No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port."
"I never rebel so much against France as not to regard Paris with a friendly eye; she has had my heart since my childhood.... I love her tenderly, even to her warts and her spots. I am French only by this great city: the glory of France, and one of the noblest ornaments of the world."
"Oh what a valiant faculty is hope."