Michel de Montaigne quotes
"Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it."
"There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent."
"When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind."
"There are some defeats more triumphant than victories."
"Man is certainly stark mad. He cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens."
"Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it."
"I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly."
"There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent."
"There is as much difference between us and ourselves as there is between us and others."
"I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly."
