Children's games are hardly games. Children are never more serious than when they play. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
When I play with my cat, who knows whether I do not make her more sport than she makes me? — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays its own game. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
To die is not to play a part in society; it is the act of a single person. Let us live and… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
There is nothing so noble and so right as to play our human life well and fitly, nor anything so difficult to… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Everyone can play the mummer's part, and represent an honest personage on the stage; but inwardly, within his own bosom, where all… — Michel De Montaigne Copy Share Image
Most of our occupations are low comedy.... We must play our part duly, but as the part of a borrowed character. Of… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
When I play with my cat, who knows whether I do not make her more sport than she makes me? When I… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
In my opinion, the most fruitful and natural play of the mind is in conversation. I find it sweeter than any other… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The laws keep up their credit, not by being just, but because they are laws; 'tis the mystic foundation of their authority; they have… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Beauty is the true prerogative of women, and so peculiarly their own, that our sex, though naturally requiring another sort of feature, is never… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The height and value of true virtue consists in the facility, utility, and pleasure of its exercise; so far from difficulty, that boys, as… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Fie on the eloquence that leaves us craving itself, not things! — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The plainest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness: her state is like that of things in the regions above the moon, always clear… — Michel De Montaigne Copy Share Image
The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man; some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
If people must be talking about me, I would have it to be truthfully and justly. I would willingly return from the next world… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
In true friendship, in which I am expert, I give myself to my friend more than I draw him to me. I not only… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
There are as many and innumerable degrees of wit, as there are cubits between this and heaven. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
