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 MONTAIGNERejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
-
-
Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
If 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 MONTAIGNE -
I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
The confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
Make 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 MONTAIGNE -
Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
I 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 MONTAIGNE -
For truly it is to be noted, that children’s plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE