The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold…The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbor creates a war betwixt princes.
Michel de Montaigne
Category: Quote of the Day
Aphorisms, proverbs, wise sayings and other witty, pithy stuff
27JUN2024 – Quote of the Day
Whatever can be done another day can be done today.
Michel de Montaigne
26JUN2024 – Quote of the Day
I want death to find me planting my cabbages.
Michel de Montaigne
25JUN2024 – Quote of the Day
He who would teach men to die would teach them to live.
Michel de Montaigne
24JUN2024 – Quote of the Day
Live as long as you please, you will strike nothing off the time you will have to spend dead.
Michel de Montaigne
23JUN2024 – Quote of the Day
A little of all things, but nothing of everything, after the French manner.
Michel de Montaigne
22JUN2024 – Quote of the Day
How many things served us yesterday for articles of faith, which today are fables for us?
Michel de Montaigne
21JUN2024 – Quote of the Day
Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.
Michel de Montaigne
20JUN2024 – Quote of the Day
He who does not give himself leisure to be thirsty cannot take pleasure in drinking.
Michel de Montaigne
19JUN2024 – Quote of the Day
My trade and my art is living.
Michel de Montaigne