When we wish to correct with advantage, and to show another that he errs, we must notice from what side he views the matter, for on that side it is usually true.

The great mass of people judge well of things, for they are in natural ignorance, which is man's true state.

It is not in Montaigne, but in myself, that I find all that I see in him.

Custom determines what is agreeable.

It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.

Montaigne is wrong in declaring that custom ought to be followed simply because it is custom, and not because it is reasonable or just.

Not to be mad is another form of madness