Ignorance is the softest pillow on which... by Michel de Montaigne | We Heart Quotes

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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.

- Michel de Montaigne

Other quotes by Michel de Montaigne

Children

It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.

- Michel de Montaigne

Art

My trade and art is to live.

- Michel de Montaigne

Lie

I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.

- Michel de Montaigne

Faith Today

How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.

- Michel de Montaigne

Man

If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.

- Michel de Montaigne

Conscience

We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.

- Michel de Montaigne

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