Quotes By Michel De Montaigne

The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.

I quote others only in order the better to express myself.

Ambition is not a vice of little people.

The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.

No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.

The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.

Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.

He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.

I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.

Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.

He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.

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.

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.

Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.

We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.