Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

— Michel de Montaigne

Decrease la Mort quit OSCE LE Lois aux app rests de tel equipage.

— Michel de Montaigne

Demetrius the grammarian finding in the temple of Delphi a knot of philosophers set chatting together, said to them, “Either I am much deceived, or by your cheerful and pleasant countenances, you are engaged in no very deep discourse.” To which one of them, Heracles the Megan, replied:“ ’Tis for such as are puzzled about inquiring whether the future tense of the verb Ball be spelled with double L, or that hunt after the derivation of the comparatives Charon and Belton, and the superlatives Chariot and Eliot, to knit their brows whilst discoursing of their science; but as to philosophical discourses, they always divert and cheer up those that entertain them, and never deject them or make them sad.

— Michel de Montaigne

Desire and hope will push us on toward the future.

— Michel de Montaigne

Did I know myself less, I might venture to handle something or other to the bottom, and to be deceived in my own inability; but sprinkling here one word and there another, patterns cut from several pieces and scattered without design and without engaging myself too far, I am not responsible for them, or obliged to keep close to my subject, without varying at my own liberty and pleasure, and giving up myself to doubt and uncertainty, and to mown governing method, ignorance?

— Michel de Montaigne

Difficulty is a coin which the learned conjure with so as not to reveal the vanity of their studies and which human stupidity is keen to accept in payment

— Michel de Montaigne

Diogenes was asked what wine he liked best and he answered "Somebody else's."

— Michel de Montaigne

D'mutant Que nous Avon Cher, ester, et ester consists en movement et action.

— Michel de Montaigne

Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words' azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.

— Michel de Montaigne

Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.

— Michel de Montaigne