Michel De Montaigne

If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrec ...

Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its l ...

It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never s ...

In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, t ...

A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see ...

No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.

Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.

For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their mos ...

I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.

Opinion is a powerful party, bold, and without measure.

Let every foot have its own shoe.

Women when they marry buy a cat in the bag.

Men are nothing until they are excited.

That is why Bias jested with those who were going through the perils of a great storm with him and c ...