Jurisdiction is not given for the sake of the judge, but for that of the litigant.
I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
Bless yourself with holy water, have Masses said, and so on; by a simple and natural process this will make you believe, and will dull you - will quiet your proudly critical intellect.
It is not in Montaigne, but in myself, that I find all that I see in him.
Men blaspheme what they do not know.
The past and present are only our means; the future is always our end. Thus we never really live, but only hope to live.