Michel de Montaigne

There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a…

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations…

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

How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as…

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason…

Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity…

There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom…

My trade and art is to live…

I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I…

The thing I fear most is fear…

In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book…

If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more…

Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we…

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband…

Marriage is like a cage one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and…