A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEA man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThere is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEA good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIt is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEAn untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNELet us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIt should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEVirtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIt is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIgnorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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 MONTAIGNEThe worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNETis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEMarriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE