michel de montaigne

“ If I am pressed to say why I loved him, I feel it can only be explained by replying: 'Because it was him; because it was me.' ”

“ God's justice and His power are inseparable; 'tis in vain we invoke His power in an unjust cause. ”

“ Children's games are hardly games. Children are never more serious than when they play. ”

“ Notice what you eat, and you will find in it the taste of your own flesh. ”

“ Virtue refuses facility for her companion the easy, gentle, and sloping path that guides the footsteps of a good natural disposition is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road. ”

“ The soul has the greatest interest in all the rest, and there are some vices that have something, if a man may so say, of generous in them. ”

“ The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself. ”

“ I do not willingly alight when I am once on horseback, for it is the place where, whether well or sick, I find myself most at ease. ”

“ When I play with my cat, who knows if I am not a pastime to her more than she is to me? ”

“ I feel myself importuned by an error of the soul that displeases me. ”