Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous. - (Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De - Age and Aging)

Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face. - (Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De - Age and Aging)

Ambition is not a vice of little people. - (Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De - Ambition)

When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her. - (Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De - Amusement)

He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak. - (Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De - Argument)

No profession or occupation is more pleasing than the military; a profession or exercise both noble in execution (for the strongest, most generous and proudest of all virtues is true valor) and noble in its cause. No utility either more just or universal than the protection of the repose or defense of the greatness of one's country. The company and daily conversation of so many noble, young and active men cannot but be well-pleasing to you. - (Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De - Army and Navy)

I consider myself an average man, except in the fact that I consider myself an average man. - (Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De - Averages)

The beauty of stature is the only beauty of men. - (Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De - Beauty)

How many things served us but yesterday as articles of faith, which today we deem but fables? - (Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De - Belief)

Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know. - (Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De - Belief)

Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged. - (Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De - Books - Reading)

Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think. - (Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De - Candor)

An unattempted lady could not vaunt of her chastity. - (Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De - Chastity)

The most manifest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness; her state is like that in the regions above the moon, always clear and serene. - (Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De - Cheerfulness)

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness. - (Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De - Cheerfulness)