3 December 2020 Michel de Montaigne Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
3 December 2020 Michel de Montaigne I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
3 December 2020 Michel de Montaigne The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them… Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
3 December 2020 Michel de Montaigne There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
3 December 2020 Michel de Montaigne Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
3 December 2020 Michel de Montaigne Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil’s alphabet – the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
3 December 2020 Michel de Montaigne In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk – they are all part of the curriculum.
