Michel de Montaigne Quotes

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.

I quote others only in order the better to express myself.

Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.

Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.

Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.

Love 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.

Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.

Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.