Ease crushes us. Author: Michel de Montaigne Copy Quote More from Michel de Montaigne “I have no other passion to keep me in breath. What avarice, ambition, quarrels,…” “[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and thos…” “The soul in which philosophy dwells should by its health make even the body hea…” “Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.”