“For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.”
Sports
“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.”
TruthAll Quotes by Michel de Montaigne
“Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.”
Best“It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.”
Intelligence“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“The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.”
God“There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.”
Knowledge“It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.”
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“A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.”
Good“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“It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.”
Strength“Marriage is like a cage one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.”
Marriage“The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.”
Wisdom“The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.”
Courage“I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.”
Education“How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.”
Faith“If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.”
Friendship“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“The thing I fear most is fear.”
Fear