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• How many worthy men have we seen survive their own reputation!
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book ii, Chap. xvi, Of Glory...
• 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....
• For a desperate disease a desperate cure. -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book ii, Chap.
  iii, The Custom of the Isle of Cea...
• And not to serve for a table-talk. -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book ii, Chap.
  iii, The Custom of the Isle of Cea...
• Men are most apt to believe what they least understand.
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book iii, Chap. xi...
• 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...
• Not because Socrates said so,... I look upon all men as my compatriots.
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book iii, Chap. ix...
• The public weal requires that men should betray and lie and massacre.
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book iii, Chap. i, Of Profit and Honesty...
• The only good histories are those that have been written by the persons themselves who commanded in the affairs whereof they write.
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book ii, Chap. x, Of Book...