More from Michel de Montaigne

  1. Nothing prints more lively in our minds than something we wish to forget.
  2. Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
  3. Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
  4. Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
  5. No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
  6. Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
  7. No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.
  8. So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disor…

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