If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
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

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.
Michel de Montaigne

If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
Michel de Montaigne

Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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 true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.
Michel de Montaigne

It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.
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 good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
Michel de Montaigne

It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
Michel de Montaigne

It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
Michel de Montaigne

It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
Michel de Montaigne

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
Michel de Montaigne

Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
Michel de Montaigne

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

Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.
Michel de Montaigne

Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
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