Michel de Montaigne

Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.

Michel de Montaigne

Life itself is neither a good nor an evil: life is where good or evil find a place, depending on how you make it for them.

Michel de Montaigne

Live as long as you please, you will strike nothing off the time you will have to spend dead.

Michel de Montaigne

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.

Michel de Montaigne

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

Michel de Montaigne

Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.

Michel de Montaigne

Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately.

Michel de Montaigne

Praise is always pleasing, let it come from whom, or upon what account it will.

Michel de Montaigne

Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.

Michel de Montaigne

Repentance is but a denying of our will, and an opposition of our fantasies.

Michel de Montaigne