Friendship that possesses the whole soul, and there rules and sways with an absolute sovereignty, can admit of no rival.
Michel de MontaigneThe easy, gentle, and sloping path . . . is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road.
Michel de MontaigneThe desire for riches is more sharpened by their use than by their need. Pleasing all: a mark that can never be aimed at or hit.
Michel de MontaigneWhen I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
Michel de MontaigneDisappointment and feebleness imprint upon us a cowardly and valetudinarian virtue.
Michel de MontaigneTo divert myself from a troublesome fancy, it is but to run to my books; they presently fix me to them, and drive the other out of my thoughts, and do not mutiny to see that I have only recourse to them for want of other more, real, natural, and lively conveniences; they always receive me with the same kindness.
Michel de Montaigne