Michel de Montaigne Quote

For table-talk, I prefer the pleasant and witty before the learned and the grave; in bed, beauty before goodness.


Essays (ed. 1877)


For table-talk, I prefer the pleasant and witty before the learned and the grave; in bed, beauty before goodness.

For table-talk, I prefer the pleasant and witty before the learned and the grave; in bed, beauty before goodness.

For table-talk, I prefer the pleasant and witty before the learned and the grave; in bed, beauty before goodness.

For table-talk, I prefer the pleasant and witty before the learned and the grave; in bed, beauty before goodness.