Michel de Montaigne on Love & Romance
If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
Michel de Montaigne on Argument / Debate
There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
Michel de Montaigne on Argument / Debate
He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
Michel de Montaigne on Education
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
Michel de Montaigne on Books
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 my mind.
Michel de Montaigne on Art / Music
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 well spent.