“The thing I fear most is fear.”
Fear
“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.”
LearningAll Quotes by Michel de Montaigne
“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.”
Learning“Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.”
Death“If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.”
Love“If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.”
Friendship“I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.”
Education“Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.”
Best“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.”
Nature“I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.”
Truth“There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.”
Fear“The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.”
God“The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.”
Life“My trade and art is to live.”
Art“Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.”
Marriage“Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.”
Dreams“There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.”
Family“There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.”
Knowledge“It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.”
Intelligence“Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.”
Future“For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.”
Sports