#p

I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#except #i #i do #mind #minds

I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man's estate. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#common #does #each #entire #estate

I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#contradictions #find #going #i #i write

If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#because #cannot #expressed #feel #him

Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#his #ignorance #man #pillow #rest

In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#bit #blunder #book #boy #comes

It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#being #divine #enjoy #how #know

It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#activity #children #games #most #noted

Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#business #her #let us #nature #permit

One may be humble out of pride. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#humble #may #out #pride