Quotes By Michel De Montaigne
We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
Michel de Montaigne
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
Michel de Montaigne
I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
Michel de Montaigne
If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
Michel de Montaigne
I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
Michel de Montaigne