More quotes by Michel de Montaigne

"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"
"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."
"The least strained and most natural ways of the soul are the most beautiful; the best occupations are the least forced."
"I listen with attention to the judgment of all men;but so far as I can remember,I have followed none but my own."