It is not in Montaigne, but in myself, that I find all that I see in him.
Nothing fortifies scepticism more than that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.
What are our natural principles but principles of custom?
That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.
Nature, which alone is good, is wholly familiar and common.
Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects.