Michel de Montaigne

The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage…

For truly it is to be noted, that children’s plays are not sports, and should…

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…