Category: 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.”
-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.”
-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.”
-Michel de Montaigne

“Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.”
-Michel de Montaigne

“My trade and art is to live.”
-Michel de Montaigne

“There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.”
-Michel de Montaigne

“The thing I fear most is fear.”
-Michel de Montaigne

“Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.”
-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.”
-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.”
-Michel de Montaigne