If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I. - Michel de Montaigne. View more images...

I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing except wind. - Michel de Montaigne. View more images...

We need very strong ears to hear ourselves judged frankly, and because there are few who can endure frank criticism without being stung by it, those who venture to criticize us perform a remarkable act of friendship, for to undertake to wound or offe - Michel de Montaigne. View more images...

In nine lifetimes, you'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you. - Michel de Montaigne. View more images...

And on the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom. - Michel de Montaigne. View more images...

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love. - Michel de Montaigne. View more images...

Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee. - Michel de Montaigne. View more images...

It is humankind's duty to respect all life, not only animals have feelings but even also trees and plants - Michel de Montaigne. View more images...

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to be self-sufficient. - Michel de Montaigne. View more images...

To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave. - Michel de Montaigne. View more images...

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes, most of which never happened. - Michel de Montaigne. View more images...

I know that the arms of friendship are long enough to reach from the one end of the world to the other - Michel de Montaigne. View more images...

Fear, desire, hope still push us on toward the future. - Michel de Montaigne. View more images...

If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed than by making answer, Because it was he; because it was I. There is beyond all that I am able to say, I know not what inexplicable and fated power that brought on this union. - Michel de Montaigne. View more images...

Celuy ayme peu qui ayme à la mesure. He loves little who loves by rule. - Michel de Montaigne. View more images...