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• Not because Socrates said so,... I look upon all men as my compatriots.
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book iii, Chap. ix...
• Saturninus said, "Comrades, you have lost a good captain to make him an ill general.
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book iii, Chap. ix...
• There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book iii, Chap. ix...
• A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book i, Chap. xxxviii, Of Solitude...
• Even opinion is of force enough to make itself to be espoused at the expense of life.
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book i, Chap. xl, Of Good and Evil...
• Accustom him to everything, that he may not be a Sir Paris, a carpet-knight, -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book i, Chap.
  xxv, Of the Education of Childre...
• He who should teach men to die would at the same time teach them to live.
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book i, Chap....
• Like rowers, who advance backward. -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book iii, Chap.
  i, Of Profit and Honesty...
• My appetite comes to me while eating. -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book iii, Chap.
  ix...