Author of quotes: Michel de Montaigne. Page 2

The disease for him is really hard when because of it you have to stop working. These people go to bed just to die...

I am forbidden to doubt miracles, threatening otherwise with the most terrible insults.

It's hard to keep your judgment intact when it's so pressed by conventional views.

Need hugs people and drives them together.

... I find that all our greatest vices begin from a very tender age and that our upbringing depends mainly on our nurses and nannies.

Every moment you live you steal from life: it was lived by you at its expense.

People, as one ancient Greek saying goes, are tormented not by the things themselves, but by the ideas that they have created for themselves about them.

... Indeed, deceit is a shameful vice. Only the word makes us human, only the word makes it possible to communicate with each other. And if we were aware of the abomination and severity of the said vice, we would punish it by burning it at the stake with more ground than anything else.

The punishment that has befallen you is still very mild compared to what others tolerate: This is truly a paternal punishment.

Truth does not grow wiser with age.

If teachers educate their many students, teaching them all the same lesson and demanding the same behavior from them, although their abilities are not at all the same, then it is not surprising that among the huge crowd of children there will be only two or three children who benefit from similar teaching.

The soul benefits decisively from everything. Even delusions, even dreams - and they serve her purposes: she will have everything going to work, just to protect us from danger and anxiety.

Stupidity and confusion in feelings is not such a thing that can be corrected with one good piece of advice.

It is a nefarious and pointless occupation to endlessly deal with your money, finding pleasure in sorting through them, weighing and recalculating them! This, indeed, is the way in which greed creeps into us with a quiet boot.