Michel de Montaigne

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

Michel de Montaigne

There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thoughts under the scrutiny of the laws, he would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.

Michel de Montaigne

There is no wish more natural than the wish to know.

Michel de Montaigne

There is nothing useless in nature; not even uselessness itself.

Michel de Montaigne

There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.

Michel de Montaigne

Those things that are dearest to us have cost us the most.

Michel de Montaigne

To learn that we have said or done a foolish thing, that is nothing; we must learn that we are nothing but fools, a far broader and more important lesson.

Michel de Montaigne

To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death.

Michel de Montaigne

Truly it is reasonable to make a great distinction between the faults that come from our weakness and those that come from our wickedness.

Michel de Montaigne

We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade.

Michel de Montaigne