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Michel de Montaigne | Quoterism

Michel de Montaigne

Was one of the most significant philosophers of the French Renaissance. He is known for popularizing the essay as a literary genre.

Michel de Montaigne

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.
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.