The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One. – Michel de Montaigne
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly. – Michel de Montaigne
When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her. – Michel de Montaigne
Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages. – Michel de Montaigne
Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil’s alphabet – the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies. – Michel de Montaigne
Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way. – Michel de Montaigne
