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Danh ngôn của Michel de Montaigne (Sứ mệnh: 4)

It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.
Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.
It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
My trade and art is to live.
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.
Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.
There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.
It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.
It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.
There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.