Michel de MontaigneThinkers

Agreement is tiresome. There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.

The Cat is a thing whereby it is unclear who is making sport of who.

Certainty is so firmly believed as that which we least know.

Contradiction is a thing one might do to oneself, but never to the truth.

Conversation is never more boring than when everybody agrees.

Custom is reasonable or just.

Defeat is sometimes more triumphant than victory.

Dreaming is comparable to life: we sleeping wake and waking sleep.

Education is a corrupting thing. Peasants make preferable company because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

Friendship is a refuge for the individual rather than a point of departure for involvement in any community. It had nothing to do with the state, the community or any common effort to change the conditions of society.