Author of quotes: Michel de Montaigne. Page 4

If I were a writer, I would lead the magazine of the deaths of different people: by reading it, people learned not only to die but to live.

People believe in nothing so firmly as what they least know.

Not poverty, but rather abundance leads us to greed.

You cannot rely on those revenues that we hope to obtain, no matter how loyal they may seem to us.

Let the teacher asks the student not only words learned by rote a lesson, but the meaning and the essence of it, and to judge the benefit that it brought, not on the testimony of the memory of his pet, and his life. Let them, explaining that a student, it will show him that with hundreds of different parties and use a lot of different subjects to check your understanding of the student and the extent to which learned it.

I would like to tutor from the very beginning, in accordance with the mental inclinations of the child trusted him, gave him the opportunity to manifest these tendencies, offering him to experience taste different things, to choose between them and to distinguish their own, sometimes opposite, allowing you to find your way to him. I don't want to mentor one was decided and only one said; I want him to also listen to your pet.

The difficulty gives things price.

Even on the highest of earthly thrones, we sit on your butt.

We taught the women to blush at the slightest mention of all those things, do they in any way shameful.

As soon as a woman becomes our own, we cease to belong to her.

To correctly judge things sublime and great, I must have the same soul; otherwise we ascribe to them our own deficiencies.

The more our soul is filled, the bigger it becomes.

The man is amazingly vain, a truly strange and ever fluctuating entity.

Fate delivers to us only the raw material, and ourselves is to give it shape.