About Michel de Montaigne
Michel Eyquem, Seigneur de Montaigne (28 February 1533 – 13 September 1592), commonly known as just Michel de Montaigne, was one of the most significant writers of the French Renaissance. He is known for popularising the essay as a literary genre. His work is noted for its merging of casual...
More quotations from Michel de Montaigne
I will follow the right side even to the fire, but excluding the fire if I can.
Things are not bad in themselves, but our cowardice makes them so.
No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.