Quotations by Author

Michel de Montaigne

Let us permit Nature to have her way; she understands her business better than we do.

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

Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.

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.

Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.

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

I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.

If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.

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.

Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

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

When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.