About Michel de Montaigne:
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne is noted for its merging of casual anecdotes and autobiography with serious intellectual insight; his massive volume Essais (translated literally as "Attempts" or "Trials") contains some of the most influential essays ever written. Montaigne had a direct influence on writers all over the world, including Francis Bacon, René Descartes, Blaise Pascal, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Albert Hirschman, William Hazlitt, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Friedrich Nietzsche, Stefan Zweig, Eric Hoffer, Isaac Asimov, and possibly on the later works of William Shakespeare.
Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
Michel de MontaigneIt is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
Michel de MontaigneThere is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
Michel de MontaigneIf there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
Michel de MontaigneHow many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
Michel de MontaigneEvery one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.
Michel de Montaigne