More from Michel de Montaigne

  1. I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
  2. I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
  3. If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectl…
  4. I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
  5. In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.
  6. In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page-boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table …
  7. I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
  8. It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.

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