Michel de Montaigne — 🏺 Philosophy Quote

Montaigne identifies self-ownership as the highest achievement in life.

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

Montaigne identifies self-ownership as the highest achievement in life.

“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