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• 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...
• Man in sooth is a marvellous, vain, fickle, and unstable subject.
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book i, Chap....
• Not because Socrates said so,... I look upon all men as my compatriots.
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book iii, Chap. ix...
• Men are most apt to believe what they least understand.
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book iii, Chap. xi...
• 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...
• Like rowers, who advance backward. -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book iii, Chap.
  i, Of Profit and Honesty...
• Few men have been admired by their own domestics.
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book iii, Chap ii, Of Repentance...
• How many worthy men have we seen survive their own reputation!
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book ii, Chap. xvi, Of Glory...
• 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...