3 December 2020 Michel de Montaigne Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
3 December 2020 Michel de Montaigne Marriage is like a cage one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
3 December 2020 Michel de Montaigne There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
3 December 2020 Michel de Montaigne There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.
3 December 2020 Michel de Montaigne If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
3 December 2020 Michel de Montaigne A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
3 December 2020 Michel de Montaigne If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
3 December 2020 Michel de Montaigne The confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
3 December 2020 Michel de Montaigne Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.
3 December 2020 Michel de Montaigne The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
3 December 2020 Michel de Montaigne Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
3 December 2020 Michel de Montaigne I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind – and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
3 December 2020 Michel de Montaigne We can be knowledgable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
3 December 2020 Michel de Montaigne For truly it is to be noted, that children’s plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
3 December 2020 Michel de Montaigne I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
3 December 2020 Michel de Montaigne Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
3 December 2020 Michel de Montaigne It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.
3 December 2020 Michel de Montaigne The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
3 December 2020 Michel de Montaigne If you don’t know how to die, don’t worry Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you don’t bother your head about it.
3 December 2020 Michel de Montaigne How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
3 December 2020 Michel de Montaigne I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.
