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 care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself.
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom.
Even on the highest throne in the world, we are still sitting on our ass.
I will follow the right side even to the fire, but excluding the fire if I can.
More quotations tagged with “identity”
Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.
To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.
There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class.