Michel de Montaigne

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

“Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.”

“There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.”

“There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.”

“It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.”

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

“Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.”