Michel de Montaigne Quotes About Happiness

Quotes about: Happiness

• The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Happiness, Cheerful, Certain

  Michel de Montaigne, Bayle St. John (1866). “Essays [tr. by Cotton”, p.235

• The least strained and most natural ways of the soul are the most beautiful; the best occupations are the least forced.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Happiness, Beautiful, Soul

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.622, Stanford University Press

• The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts, and the great art of life is to have as many of them as possible.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Happiness, Art, Inspirational Life

• Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Happiness, Masterpiece, Glorious

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.14, Stanford University Press

• Happiness involves working toward meaningful goals.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Happiness, Meaningful, Goal

• It needs good management to enjoy life. I enjoy it twice as much as others, for the measure of enjoyment depends on the greater or less attention that we give to it...The shorter my possession of life the deeper and fuller I must make it.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Happiness, Giving, Enjoy Life

• Wisdom has its excesses, and has no less need of moderation than folly.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Happiness, Wisdom, Excess

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Essays:”, p.3, Sheba Blake Publishing

• The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Happiness, Annoyance, Smallest

• There is some shadow of delight and delicacy which smiles upon and flatters us even in the very lap of melancholy.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Happiness, Shadow, Lap

  Michel de Montaigne (1872). “All the Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne”, p.567

• In my opinion it is the happy living, and not, as Antisthenes said, the happy lying, in which human happiness consists.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Happiness, Lying, Opinion

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