Attributed quotes — Michel de Montaigne
1533–1592 France
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
There is a plague on Man, the opinion that he knows something.
There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play
And in one word, just nothing.
There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest.
Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Michel de Montaigne (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.