It is a dangerous and fateful presumption, besides the absurd temerity that it implies, to disdain what we do not comprehend. For after you have established, according to your fine undertstanding, the limits of truth and falsehood, and it turns out that you must necessarily believe things even stranger than those you deny, you are obliged from then on to abandon these limits.
Michel de MontaigneI speak the truth, not my fill of it, but as much as I dare speak; and I dare to do so a little more as I grow old.
Michel de MontaigneWho ever saw a doctor use the prescription of his colleague without cutting out or adding something?
Michel de MontaigneThe great and glorious masterpiece of humanity is to know how to live with a purpose.
Michel de MontaigneThe laws keep up their credit, not by being just, but because they are laws; 'tis the mystic foundation of their authority; they have no other, and it well answers their purpose. They are often made by fools; still oftener by men who, out of hatred to equality, fail in equity; but always by men, vain and irresolute authors.
Michel de Montaigne