My trade and art is to live.
Category Archive: Michel de Montaigne
Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
‘Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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.
There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.