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• The diversity of physical arguments and opinions embraces all sorts of methods.
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book iii, Chap. xiii...
• 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...
• All the world knows me in my book, and my book in me.
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book iii, Chap. v...
• 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...
• I, who have so much and so universally adored this [greek], "excellent mediocrity," -- 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 more ado to interpret interpretations than to interpret the things, and more books upon books than upon all other subjec
  we do nothing but comment upon one another. -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book iii, Chap....
• Let us a little permit Nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we.
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book iii, Chap. xiii...
• 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...