More from Michel de Montaigne

  1. 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…
  2. The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
  3. Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
  4. The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
  5. 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.
  6. The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this l…
  7. Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
  8. The most manifest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness; her state is like that in the regions above the moon, always clear and serene.

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