There are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds more than they think of without that warmth.

Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.

We see neither justice nor injustice which does not change its nature with change in climate. Three degrees of latitude reverse all jurisprudence; a meridian decides the truth.

Seeing too much to deny and too little to be sure, I am in a state to be pitied.

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

Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.

Happiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him.