Michel de Montaigne Quotes

Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.

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

Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.

I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.

He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.

The greater part of the world`s troubles are due to questions of grammar

Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.

My trade and art is to live.

There never were in the world two opinions alike, no more than two hairs or two grains; the most universal quality is diversity

I listen with attention to the judgement of all men; but so far as I can remember, I have followed none but my own

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end

Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly