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• 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...
• What if he has borrowed the matter and spoiled the form, as it oft falls out?
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book iii, Chap. viii...
• I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
  -- 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...
• There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book i, Chap. xxx, Of Cannibal...
• Like rowers, who advance backward. -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book iii, Chap.
  i, Of Profit and Honesty...
• Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book ii, Chap. xii, Apology for Raimond Sebond...
• There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book iii, Chap. ix...
• 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...