Michel De Montaigne

He who would teach men to die would teach them to live.

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

Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself.

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

The soul that has no established aim loses itself

Saying is one thing and doing is another; we are to consider the sermon and the preacher distinctly and apart.

A woman is no sooner ours than we are no longer hers.

The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.

God defend me from being an honest man according to the description which every day I see made by each man to his own glorification

Report followeth not all goodness, except difficulty and rarity be joined thereto.

A wise man loses nothing, if he but save himself.

For truth itself does not have the privilege to be employed at any time and in every way; its use, noble as it is, has its circumscriptions and limits.

The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Our wisdom and deliberation for the most part follow the lead of chance.

What of a truth that is bounded by these mountains and is falsehood to the world that lives beyond?

We must reserve a back shop all our own entirely free, in which to establish our real liberty and our principal retreat and solitude.

Children's games are hardly games. Children are never more serious than when they play.

The honor of the conquest is rated by the difficulty.

The concern that some women show at the absence of their husbands, does not arise from their not seeing them and being with them, but from their apprehension that their husbands are enjoying pleasures in which they do not participate, and which, from their being at a distance, they have not the power of interrupting.

An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.

No man is a hero to his own valet.