More quotes by Michel de Montaigne

"I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself."
"There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened."
"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."
"If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love."
"There is indeed a certain sense of gratification when we do a good deed that gives us inward satisfaction, and a generous pride that accompanies a good conscience…These testimonies of a good conscience are pleasant; and such a natural pleasure is very beneficial to us; it is the only payment that can never fail. “On Repentance"