I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEI quote others only in order the better to express myself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNENo pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEFew men have been admired of their familiars.
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 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 MONTAIGNEA good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEI have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIf you don’t know how to die, don’t worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIn nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them… Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
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 MONTAIGNEWhen I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEConfidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEMarriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIt is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIgnorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE