More quotes by Michel de Montaigne

"The least strained and most natural ways of the soul are the most beautiful; the best occupations are the least forced."
"I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself."
"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 most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness."
"Though the ancient poet in Plutarch tells us we must not trouble the gods with our affairs because they take no heed of our angers and disputes, we can never enough decry the disorderly sallies of our minds."