Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
Michel de Montaigne
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.
Michel de Montaigne
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.
Michel de Montaigne
Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
Michel de Montaigne
How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
Michel de Montaigne
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
Michel de Montaigne
We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
Michel de Montaigne
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
Michel de Montaigne
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.
Michel de Montaigne
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.
Michel de Montaigne