Our own peculiar human condition is that we are as fit to be laughed at as able to laugh.
Michel de MontaigneI see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.
Michel de MontaigneIs it not better to remain in suspense than to entangle yourself in the many errors that the human fancy has produced? Is it not better to suspend your convictions than to get mixed up in these seditious and quarrelsome divisions?
Michel de MontaigneI listen with attention to the judgment of all men; but so far as I can remember, I have followed none but my own.
Michel de Montaigne