Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThose who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEMy life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEDeath, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIt is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEWhen I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThere is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThere is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNERejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIf a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEShe will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNENothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEFew men have been admired of their familiars.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe world is but a perpetual see-saw.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEI quote others only in order the better to express myself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThere is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE