Michel de Montaigne Quotes About Tranquility

Quotes about: Tranquility

• To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquility in our conduct. Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately. All other things, ruling, hoarding, building, are only little appendages and props, at most.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Book, Character, Winning

  Michel de Montaigne (1948). “Selections from the essays of Michel Eyquem de Montaigne”

• Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Quiet, Tranquility, Fame

  'Essais' (1580) bk. 1, ch. 39

• What we are told of the inhabitants of Brazil, that they never die but of old age, is attributed to the tranquility and serenity of their climate; I rather attribute it to the tranquility and serenity of their souls, which are free from all passion, thought, or any absorbing and unpleasant labors. Those people spend their lives in an admirable simplicity and ignorance, without letters, without law, without king, without any manner of religion.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Kings, Ignorance, Passion

  Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

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