Michel De Montaigne Quotes

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
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.
If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
In nine lifetimes, you'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
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.
It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.
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.
It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.
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.
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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