Tortures are a dangerous invention, and seem to be a test of endurance rather than of truth.
Michel de MontaigneThere never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains; the most universal quality is diversity.
Michel de MontaigneMeditation is a powerful and full study as can effectually taste and employ themselves.
Michel de MontaigneI would like to suggest that our minds are swamped by too much study and by too much matter just as plants are swamped by too much water or lamps by too much oil; that our minds, held fast and encumbered by so many diverse preoccupations, may well lose the means of struggling free, remaining bowed and bent under the load; except that it is quite otherwise: the more our souls are filled, the more they expand; examples drawn from far-off times show, on the contrary, that great soldiers ad statesmen were also great scholars.
Michel de Montaigne