Michel de Montaigne Communication Quotations

I quote others only in order the better to express myself.

There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.

It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.

No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.

No pleasure is fully delightful without communications, and no delight absolute except imparted.

I love a friendship that flatters itself in the sharpness and vigor of its communications.

Speech belongs half to the speaker, half to the listener. The latter must prepare to receive it according to the motion it takes.

Authors communicate with the people by some special extrinsic mark; I am the first to do so by my entire being, as Michel de Montaigne.