Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
If you don’t know how to die, don’t worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
One may be humble out of pride.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
‘Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE