Michel de Montaigne Quotes

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

“I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.”

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

“Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.”

“No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.”

“When I play with my cat, how do I know that she is not playing with me rather than I with her?”