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• 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...
• It is not without good reason said, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book i, Chap. ix, Of Lia...
• Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book i, Chap. xxxi, Of Divine Ordinance...
• 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...
• I moreover affirm that our wisdom itself, and wisest consultations, for the most part commit themselves to the conduct of chance.
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book iii, Chap. viii...
• I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice.
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book ii, Chap. xx, That we taste nothing pure...
• I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them in so prodigious numbers as we have.
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book iii, Chap. xiii...
• The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from custom.
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book i, Chap. xxii, Of Custom...