A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne
As an enemy is made more fierce by our flight, so Pain grows proud to see us knuckle under it. She will surrender upon much better terms to those who make head against her.
Michel de Montaigne
My trade and art is to live.
Michel de Montaigne
Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.
Michel de Montaigne
I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
Michel de Montaigne
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
Michel de Montaigne
Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
Michel de Montaigne
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.