Michel de Montaigne

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…

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason…

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness…

There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge…