“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.”
FutureAll Quotes by Michel de Montaigne
“I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.”
Work“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“I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.”
Truth“Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.”
Business“The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.”
Wisdom“Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.”
Nature“No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.”
Communication“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.”
Alone“Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.”
Age“My trade and art is to live.”
Art“A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.”
Good“If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.”
Friendship“The thing I fear most is fear.”
Fear“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“Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.”
Death“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.”
Education“Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.”
Courage“Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.”
Marriage“How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.”
Faith