Ambition sufficiently plagues her proselytes, by keeping themselves always in show, like the statue of a public place.
Michel de MontaigneA good marriage (if any there be) refuses the conditions of love and endeavors to present those of amity.
Michel de MontaigneThe worthiest man to be known, and for a pattern to be presented to the world, he is the man of whom we have most certain knowledge. He hath been declared and enlightened by the most clear-seeing men that ever were; the testimonies we have of him are in faithfulness and sufficiency most admirable.
Michel de MontaigneIt is not without good reason, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.
Michel de MontaigneI enter into discussion and argument with great freedom and ease, inasmuch as opinion finds me in a bad soil to penetrate and take deep root in. No propositions astonish me, no belief offends me, whatever contrast it offers to my own. There is no fancy so frivolous and so extravagant that it does not seem to me quite suitable to the production of the human mind.
Michel de Montaigne