More from Michel de Montaigne

  1. Experience teaches that a strong memory is generally joined to a weak judgment.
  2. Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
  3. Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimu…
  4. Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
  5. Don't discuss yourself, for you are bound to lose; if you belittle yourself, you are believed; if you praise yourself, you are disbelieved.
  6. Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
  7. Hath God obliged himself not to exceed the bounds of our knowledge?
  8. Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

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