Quotes by Michel de Montaigne

“If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.””

“Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.””

“Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.””

“I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing except wind.””

“There is nothing more notable in than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.””

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

“Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.””

“If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.””

“I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.””

“To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.””

“There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened.””

“Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.””