The prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk – they are all part of the curriculum.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk – they are all part of the curriculum.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNERejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEI write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind – and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEEvery man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIt is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEFame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNELove to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEHe who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIgnorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEI know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIf a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEWe are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEMake your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNELet us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE