“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
“We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.”
KnowledgeAll Quotes by Michel de Montaigne
“Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.”
Best“A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.”
Good“There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.”
Knowledge“The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.”
Death“My trade and art is to live.”
Art“Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.”
Dreams“Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.”
Marriage“There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.”
Fear“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“It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.”
Intelligence“We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.”
Knowledge“The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.”
Courage“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“Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.”
Future“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“There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.”
Family“No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.”
Communication“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“There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.”
Family