Michel de Montaigne

There is no more expensive thing than a free gift.

Michel de Montaigne

True freedom is to have power over oneself for everything.

Michel de Montaigne

Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.

Michel de Montaigne

We are all of us richer than we think we are; but we are taught to borrow and to beg, and brought up more to make use of what is another’s than of our own.

Michel de Montaigne

We are entirely made up of bits and pieces, woven together so diversely and so shapelessly that each one of them pulls its own way at every moment.

Michel de Montaigne

We must not attach knowledge to the mind, we have to incorporate it there.

Michel de Montaigne

We need but little learning to live happily.

Michel de Montaigne

We need to interpret interpretations more than to interpret things.

Michel de Montaigne

A father is very miserable who has no other hold on his children’s affection than the need they have of his assistance, if that can be called affection.

Michel de Montaigne

A hair shirt does not always render those chaste who wear it.

Michel de Montaigne