Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Quotations

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!

My home...It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against the tempest outside, as I do another corner in my soul.

I can easily imagine Socrates in Alexander's place; Alexander in that of Socrates - never

There is no course of life so weak and Scottish as that which is ordered by orders, method, and discipline.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom.

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Confidence in another person's virtue is no light evidence of your own.

I know what I am fleeing from, but not what I am in search of.

You can't tell your friend you've been cuckolded; even if he doesn't laugh at you, he may put the information to personal use