Michel de Montaigne

I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to…

Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil’s alphabet – the first vice…

Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake…

Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul…

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories…

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

No pleasure has any savor for me without communication…

I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind – and…

There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge…

The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death…