There are as many and innumerable degrees of wit, as there are cubits between this and heaven.
Michel de MontaigneIt is a small soul, buried beneath the weight of affairs, that does not know how to get clean away from them, that cannot put them aside and pick them up again.
Michel de MontaigneDon't discuss yourself, for you are bound to lose; if you belittle yourself, you are believed; if you praise yourself, you are disbelieved.
Michel de MontaigneNow, of all the benefits that virtue confers upon us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.
Michel de MontaigneOne may disavow and disclaim vices that surprise us and whereto our passions transport us. But those which by long habit are rooted in a strong and anchored in a powerful will are not subject to contradiction. Repentance is but a denying of our will, and an opposition of our fantasies, which diverts us here and there.
Michel de Montaigne