Michel de Montaigne

There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in…

The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use…

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

Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s…

For truly it is to be noted, that children’s plays are not sports, and should…

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles…

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear…

If you don’t know how to die, don’t worry Nature will tell you what to…

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness…

Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior…

The confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and…

The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage…

It is not death, it is dying that alarms me…

We can be knowledgable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise with other…

It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of…