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• It is not without good reason said, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book i, Chap. ix, Of Lia...
• A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book i, Chap. xxxviii, Of Solitude...
• One may be humble out of pride. -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book ii, Chap.
  xvii, Of Presumptio...
• There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book i, Chap. xxx, Of Cannibal...
• Like rowers, who advance backward. -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book iii, Chap.
  i, Of Profit and Honesty...
• To which we may add this other Aristotelian consideration, that he who confers a benefit on any one loves him better than he is beloved by him again.
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book ii, Chap. viii, Of the Affections of Fathe...
• Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book ii, Chap....
• We were halves throughout, and to that degree that methinks by outliving him I defraud him of his part.
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book i, Chap. xxvii, Of Friendship...
• 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...