Women when they marry buy a cat in the bag.
Michel de Montaigne
Marriage, Risk, Gender, Human Nature, Metaphor
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More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
“The bitterness of the potion, and the abhorrence of the patient are necessary circumstances to the operation. It must be something to trouble and disturb the stomach that must purge and cure it.” Michel de Montaigne
Healing, Discomfort, Necessity, Medicine, Human Nature
Michel de Montaigne Healing, Discomfort, Necessity, Medicine, Human Nature“If I were a maker of books I should compile a register, with comments, of different deaths. He who should teach people to die, would teach them to live.” Michel de Montaigne
Death, Life, Wisdom, Education, Human Nature
Michel de Montaigne Death, Life, Wisdom, Education, Human Nature“The study of books is a drowsy and feeble exercise which does not warm you up.” Michel de Montaigne
Reading, Learning, Action, Knowledge, Critique
Michel de Montaigne Reading, Learning, Action, Knowledge, Critique“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.” Michel de Montaigne
Education, Law, Youth, Liberty, Consequences
Michel de Montaigne Education, Law, Youth, Liberty, Consequences“The wise man should withdraw his soul within, out of the crowd, and keep it in freedom and power to judge things freely; but as for externals, he should wholly follow the accepted fashions and forms.” Michel de Montaigne
Wisdom, Individuality, Judgment, Society, Conformity
Michel de Montaigne Wisdom, Individuality, Judgment, Society, Conformity“Cowardice is the mother of cruelty.” Michel de Montaigne
Cowardice, Cruelty, Human Nature, Psychology, Morality
Michel de Montaigne Cowardice, Cruelty, Human Nature, Psychology, Morality“It is not reasonable that art should win the place of honor over our great and powerful mother Nature. We have so overloaded the beauty and richness of her works by our inventions that we have quite smothered her.” Michel de Montaigne
Nature, Art, Human Intervention, Beauty, Critique
Michel de Montaigne Nature, Art, Human Intervention, Beauty, Critique“To say less of yourself than is true is stupidity, not modesty. To pay yourself less than you are worth is cowardice and pusillanimity.” Michel de Montaigne
Self-worth, Honesty, Modesty, Courage, Integrity
Michel de Montaigne Self-worth, Honesty, Modesty, Courage, Integrity“The most certain sign of wisdom is continual cheerfulness.” Michel de Montaigne
Wisdom, Cheerfulness, Happiness, Perspective, Human Nature
Michel de Montaigne Wisdom, Cheerfulness, Happiness, Perspective, Human Nature“The most ordinary things, the most common and familiar, if we could see them in their true light, would turn out to be the grandest miracles.” Michel de Montaigne
Perception, Miracles, Ordinary Life, Awareness, Perspective
Michel de Montaigne Perception, Miracles, Ordinary Life, Awareness, Perspective“Women are not entirely wrong when they reject the moral rules proclaimed in society, since it is we men alone who have made them.” Michel de Montaigne
Gender, Morality, Society, Critique, Feminism
Michel de Montaigne Gender, Morality, Society, Critique, Feminism“I seek in books only to give myself pleasure by honest amusement; or if I study, I seek only the learning that treats of the knowledge of myself and instructs me in how to die well and live well.” Michel de Montaigne
Reading, Pleasure, Self-knowledge, Wisdom, Life And Death
Michel de Montaigne Reading, Pleasure, Self-knowledge, Wisdom, Life And Death“Desire and hope will push us on toward the future.” Michel de Montaigne
Desire, Hope, Future, Human Motivation, Progress
Michel de Montaigne Desire, Hope, Future, Human Motivation, Progress“In nine lifetimes, you'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.” Michel de Montaigne
Cats, Knowledge, Mystery, Human-animal Relationship, Perception
Michel de Montaigne Cats, Knowledge, Mystery, Human-animal Relationship, Perception“A man should think less of what he eats and more with whom he eats because no food is so satisfying as good company.” Michel de Montaigne
Companionship, Food, Priorities, Human Nature, Social Interaction
Michel de Montaigne Companionship, Food, Priorities, Human Nature, Social Interaction“The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.” Michel de Montaigne
Virtue, Confidence, Trust, Human Nature, Faith
Michel de Montaigne Virtue, Confidence, Trust, Human Nature, Faith“There is no greater enemy to those who would please than expectation.” Michel de Montaigne
Expectation, Pleasure, Human Nature, Relationships, Wisdom
Michel de Montaigne Expectation, Pleasure, Human Nature, Relationships, Wisdom“I want death to find me planting my cabbages, but careless of death, and still more of my unfinished garden.” Michel de Montaigne
Death, Life, Purpose, Contentment, Perspective
Michel de Montaigne Death, Life, Purpose, Contentment, Perspective