Michel de Montaigne
“If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.”
“Nothing is so firmly believed as that which is least known.”
“A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.”
“Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.”
“There were never in the world two opinions alike; their most universal quality is diversity.”
“I quote others only in order the better to express myself.”
“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.”
“A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.”
“I am myself the matter of my book.”
“To philosophize is to learn to die.”