We are, I know not how, double in ourselves, so that what we believe we disbelieve, and cannot rid ourselves of what we condemn.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Quotes
Perhaps it is not without reason that we attribute facility in belief and conviction to simplicity and ignorance; for it seems to me I once learned that belief was sort of an impression made on our mind, and that the softer it is the less resistant the mind, the easier it was to imprint it.
For table-talk, I prefer the pleasant and witty before the learned and the grave; in bed beauty before goodness.
I consider myself an average man, except in the fact that I consider myself an average man.
When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
Ambition is not a vice of little people.
There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
Personally, I intend to take Aristotle’s advice literally: he says that coyness serves as an ornament in youth and a defect in old age.
Stability itself is nothing else than a more sluggish motion.
