Michel de Montaigne

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

Michel de Montaigne

In general I ask for books that make use of learning, not those that build it up.

Michel de Montaigne

In nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.

Michel de Montaigne

In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.

Michel de Montaigne

It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.

Michel de Montaigne

It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.

Michel de Montaigne

It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one.

Michel de Montaigne

It is equally pointless to weep because we won’t be alive a hundred years from now as that we were not here a hundred years ago.

Michel de Montaigne

It is indeed the boundary of life, beyond which we are not to pass; which the law of nature has pitched for a limit not to be exceeded.

Michel de Montaigne

It is only certain that there is nothing certain, and that nothing is more miserable or more proud than man.

Michel de Montaigne