Quotes by Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

It happens as one sees in cages: the birds who are outside despair of >>

Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them luck >>

Wisdom hath her excesses, and no less need of moderation than folly. >>

Quotations about Value

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain; and >>

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matte >>

We know the true worth of a thing when we have lost it. >>

Those things that are dearest to us have cost us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De