No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
Weitere Zitate von Michel de Montaigne
Zum Autor"Oh what a valiant faculty is hope."
"A man must live in the world and make the best of it such as it is."
"Tis no wonder, says one of the ancients, that chance has so great a dominion over us, since it is by chance we live."
"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 quote others in order to better express my own self."
"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."