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• Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book i, Chap. xxxi, Of Divine Ordinance...
• There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book i, Chap. xxx, Of Cannibal...
• How many worthy men have we seen survive their own reputation!
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book ii, Chap. xvi, Of Glory...
• All passions that suffer themselves to be relished and digested are but moderate.
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book i, Chap. ii, Of Sorrow...
• He that I am reading seems always to have the most force.
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book ii, Chap. xii, Apology for Raimond Sebond...
• I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that ties them together.
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book iii, Chap. xii...
• She [virtue] requires a rough and stormy passage; she will have either outward difficulties to wrestle with, -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book ii, Chap.
  xi, Of Cruelty...
• I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them in so prodigious numbers as we have.
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book iii, Chap. xiii...
• A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book i, Chap. xxxviii, Of Solitude...