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• He who should teach men to die would at the same time teach them to live.
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book i, Chap....
• The public weal requires that men should betray and lie and massacre.
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book iii, Chap. i, Of Profit and Honesty...
• Not because Socrates said so,... I look upon all men as my compatriots.
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book iii, Chap. ix...
• A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book i, Chap. xxxviii, Of Solitude...
• Like rowers, who advance backward. -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book iii, Chap.
  i, Of Profit and Honesty...
• There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book i, Chap. xxx, Of Cannibal...
• Men are most apt to believe what they least understand.
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book iii, Chap. xi...
• Accustom him to everything, that he may not be a Sir Paris, a carpet-knight, -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book i, Chap.
  xxv, Of the Education of Childre...
• All passions that suffer themselves to be relished and digested are but moderate.
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book i, Chap. ii, Of Sorrow...