montaigne Quotes

“Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.”

“If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.”

“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.”

“If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.”

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

“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.”

“The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.”

“How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.”

“The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.”

“We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.”