Michel de Montaigne
not die because of illness, but to be alive.
There is more difference between man and man than between two animals of different species.
willingly go back to that idea of \u200b\u200bthe inadequacy of our education. Has led us not so good or wise, but religion: he has. Has not taught us to pursue and embrace the virtue and prudence, but we recorded the derivation and etymology. We strive to fill the vacuum left memory and understanding and awareness.
tempting to cite the authors when they express our ideas, but with a clarity and insight that we fail to imitate.
No nonsense more and more common than bitter over the nonsense of the world.
hundred times a day mock our own shortcomings censuring others.
Everything is irregular and continuous movement, without direction and without purpose.
Man is something amazingly vain, variable and undulating.
If man were wise to attribute to each item according to its true value was more or less useful and proper for his life.
Wisdom lies in getting used to not understand anything that happens and simply admit that there is no explanation.
The custom delete the true face of things.
Michel de Montaigne, Essays