“Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.”
Business
“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
“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“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“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“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“Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.”
Age“The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.”
Death“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“My trade and art is to live.”
Art“Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.”
Best“There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.”
Family“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“The thing I fear most is fear.”
Fear“Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.”
Marriage“The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.”
God“If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.”
Friendship“The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.”
Wisdom