Michel de Montaigne

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear…

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