Men are tormented by the opinions they have of things and not the things themselves.Valor is stability not of legs and arms but of courage and the soul.I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.Arrogance is composed of too high opinion about oneself.There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.Ambition is not a vice of little people.A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.We suffer not because something bad happens but because of how we analyze the situation.Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end.He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.Michel de Montaigne1533 - 1592