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• I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book iii, Chap. xi...
• 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...
• I, who have so much and so universally adored this [greek], "excellent mediocrity," -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book iii, Chap.
  xiii...
• My appetite comes to me while eating. -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book iii, Chap.
  ix...
• Not because Socrates said so,... I look upon all men as my compatriots.
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book iii, Chap. ix...
• 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...
• All the world knows me in my book, and my book in me.
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book iii, Chap. v...
• The oldest and best known evil was ever more supportable than one that was new and untried.
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book iii, Chap. ix...
• Let us a little permit Nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we.
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book iii, Chap. xiii...