Michel de Montaigne Quotes

I may indeed very well happen to contradict myself; but truth, as Demades said, I do not contradict.

- Michel De Montaigne

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The plainest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness: her state is like that of things in the regions above the moon, always clear and serene. - Michel De Montaigne

Men come and they go and they trot and they dance, and never a word about death. All well and good. Yet when death does come - to them, their wives, their children, their friends - cathcing them unawares and unprepared, then what storms of passion overwhelm them, what cries what fury, what despair! - 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