Saying is one thing and doing is another; we are to consider the sermon and the preacher distinctly and apart.
Michel de MontaigneNature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.
Michel de MontaigneI leaf through books, I do not study them. What I retain of them is something I no longer recognize as anyone else's.
Michel de MontaigneWhether the events in our life are good or bad, greatly depends on the way we perceive them.
Michel de MontaigneThose who make a practice of comparing human actions are never so perplexed as when they try to see them as a whole and in the same light; for they commonly contradict each other so strangely that it seems impossible that they have come from the same shop.
Michel de MontaigneWhat enriches language is its being handled and exploited by beautiful minds-not so much by making innovations as by expanding it through more vigorous and varied applications, by extending it and deploying it. It is not words that they contribute: what they do is enrich their words, deepen their meanings and tie down their usage; they teach it unaccustomed rhythms, prudently though and with ingenuity.
Michel de Montaigne