Author: Michel de Montaigne

Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.

(1533 – 1592) French writer
People

Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom.

(1533 – 1592) French writer
Characteristics

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

(1533 – 1592) French writer
Intelligence Memory

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

(1533 – 1592) French writer
Marriage

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.

(1533 – 1592) French writer
Life Problems