A man must live in the world and make the best of it such as it is.
Weitere Zitate von Michel de Montaigne
Zum Autor"What a prodigious conscience must that be that can be at quiet within itself whilst it harbors under thesame roof, with so agreeing and so calm a society, both the crime and the judge?"
"I walk firmer and more secure up hill than down."
"No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port."
"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."
"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."