"My life has been full of terrible misfortunes, most of which never happened." - Michel de Montaigne

😊 Happiness

“My life has been full of terrible misfortunes, most of which never happened.”

Montaigne humorously exposes how much suffering exists only in our imaginations.

“The soul that has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere is to be nowhere.”

— Michel de Montaigne

“The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere is to be nowhere.”

— Michel de Montaigne

“Were I to live my life over again, I should live it just as I have lived it; I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.”

— Michel de Montaigne

“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.”

— Michel de Montaigne

“No man can have patience who has not strong passions.”

— Michel de Montaigne

“I quote others only in order the better to express myself.”

— Michel de Montaigne