Quotes by : Michel Montaigne

To make a crooked stick straight we bend it the contrary way.

Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.

No one is exempt from talking nonsense the misfortune is to do it solemnly.

When I play with my cat who knows whether I do not make her more sport than she makes me?

There is no man so good who were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws would not deserve....