“There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.” Michel de Montaigne
“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
“If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.” Michel de Montaigne
“Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.” Michel de Montaigne
“The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.” Michel de Montaigne
“A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.” Michel de Montaigne
“It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.” Michel de Montaigne
“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
