More quotes by Michel de Montaigne

"Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity."
"The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will."
"There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened."
"The least strained and most natural ways of the soul are the most beautiful; the best occupations are the least forced."
"Though the ancient poet in Plutarch tells us we must not trouble the gods with our affairs because they take no heed of our angers and disputes, we can never enough decry the disorderly sallies of our minds."