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

It is certain that those who have the living faith in their hearts see at once that all existence is none other than the work of the God whom they adore. But for those in whom this light is extinguished, [if we were to show them our proofs of the existence of God] nothing is more calculated to arouse their contempt. . . .

Orthodoxy on one side of the Pyrenees may be heresy on the other.

Apart from Jesus Christ, we do not know what is our life, nor our death, nor God, nor ourselves.

Men are so completely fools by necessity that he is but a fool in a higher strain of folly who does not confess his foolishness.

That which makes us go so far for love is that we never think that we might have need of anything besides that which we love.

You're basically killing each other to see who's got the better imaginary friend.