Michel de Montaigne Quotes about Love

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In true friendship, in which I am expert, I give myself to my friend more than I draw him to me. I not only like doing him good better than having him do me good, but also would rather have him do good to himself than

In true friendship, in which I am expert, I give myself to my friend more than I draw him to me. I not only like doing him good better than having him do me good, but also would rather have him do good to himself than to me; he does me most good when he does himself good.

Michel de Montaigne

Love, Friendship, True Friend

Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.746, Stanford University Press

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Michel de Montaigne

Love, Marriage, Ifs

It takes strong ears indeed to hear ourselves judged frankly, and because there are few who can endure criticism without being stung by it, those who venture to criticize us perform a remarkable act of friendship. For it is a healthy love that will risk wounding or offending in order to profer a benefit.

Michel de Montaigne

Love, Strong, Honesty

Marriage has, for its share, usefulness, justice, honour, and constancy; a stale but more durable pleasure. Love is grounded on pleasure alone, and it is indeed more gratifying to the senses, keener and more acute; a pleasure stirred and kept alive by difficulties. There must be a sting and a smart in it. It ceases to be love if it has no shafts and no fire.

Michel de Montaigne

Love, Marriage, Smart

Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

I love those historians that are either very simple or most excellent. Such as are between both (which is the most common fashion), it is they that spoil all; they will needs chew our meat for us and take upon them a law to judge, and by consequence to square and incline the story according to their fantasy.

Michel de Montaigne

Love, Fashion, Simple

Michel de Montaigne (1893). “The Essayes of Michael Lord of Montaigne”

If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than it was because he was he, and I was I.

Michel de Montaigne

Love, Life, Friendship

"Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book I, Ch. 28, 1595.

Why did I love her? Because it was her; because it was me.

Michel de Montaigne

Love, Heart

"Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation." -If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than it was because he was he and I was I.

Michel de Montaigne

Love, Companionship, Conversation

In love, 'tis no other than frantic desire for that which flies from us.

Michel de Montaigne

Love, Desire, Frantic

Michel de Montaigne (2013). “Michel de Montaigne: Selected Essays”, p.28, Courier Corporation

Poetry reproduces an indefinable mood that is more amorous than love itself. Venus is not so beautiful all naked, alive, and panting, as she is here in Virgil.

Michel de Montaigne

Love, Beautiful, Poetry

Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.645, Stanford University Press

Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.

Michel de Montaigne

Love, Sports, Nurse

Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, 1595.

If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.

Michel de Montaigne

Love, Men, Giving

Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Essays of Montaigne”, p.256, Xist Publishing