“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
“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
“Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.”
Dreams“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“Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.”
Age“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“No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.”
Communication“There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.”
Family“Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.”
Courage“There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.”
Family“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“I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.”
Education“We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.”
Knowledge“For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.”
Sports“The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.”
Death“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“It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.”
Death“If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.”
Friendship“A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.”
Good“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“My trade and art is to live.”
Art