I am disgusted with innovation, in whatever guise, and with reason, for I have seen very harmful effects of it.
Michel de MontaigneTis faith alone that vividly and certainly comprehends the deep mysteries of our religion.
Michel de MontaigneI admire the assurance and confidence everyone has in himself, whereas there is hardly anything I am sure I know or that I dare give my word I can do.
Michel de MontaigneOur zeal works wonders, whenever it supports our inclination toward hatred, cruelty, ambition.
Michel de MontaigneMen throw themselves on foreign assistances to spare their own, which, after all, are the only certain and sufficient ones.
Michel de MontaigneIf atoms do, by chance, happen to combine themselves into so many shapes, why have they never combined together to form a house or a slipper? By the same token, why do we not believe that if innumerable letters of the Greek alphabet were poured all over the market-place they would eventually happen to form the text of the Iliad?
Michel de Montaigne