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• 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 speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare
  and I dare a little the more as I grow older....
• 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 ever loved to repose myself, whether sitting or lying, with my heels as high or higher than my head.
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book iii, Chap. xiii...
• Like rowers, who advance backward. -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book iii, Chap.
  i, Of Profit and Honesty...
• For truth itself has not the privilege to be spoken at all times and in all sorts.
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book iii, Chap. xiii...
• The diversity of physical arguments and opinions embraces all sorts of methods.
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book iii, Chap. xiii...
• 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...
• Amongst so many borrowed things, I am glad if I can steal one, disguising and altering it for some new service.
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book iii, Chap. xii...