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• I, who have so much and so universally adored this [greek], "excellent mediocrity," -- 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....
• 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...
• Not because Socrates said so,... I look upon all men as my compatriots.
  -- 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book i, Chap. xxxi, Of Divine Ordinance...
• 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...