We have so much ill fortune as inconstancy, or so much bad purpose as folly, we are not so full of evil as we are of inanity; we are not so wretched as we are base
Michel de MontaigneThe most beautiful lives, to my mind, are those that conform to the common human pattern, with order, but without miracle and without eccentricity.
Michel de MontaigneJudgement holds in me a magisterial seat, at least it carefully tries to. It lets my feelings go their way, both hatred and friendship, even the friendship I bear myself, without being changed and corrupted by them.
Michel de MontaigneThe utility of living consists not in the length of days, but in the use of time; a man may have lived long, and yet lived but a little.
Michel de Montaigne