More quotes by Michel de Montaigne

"The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness."
"I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself."
"There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened."
"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."
"Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity."