More from Michel de Montaigne

  1. We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
  2. We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
  3. Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
  4. When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from m…
  5. 'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
  6. Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself.
  7. Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest.
  8. There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time …

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