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• I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of. Michel de Montaigne
• 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 will follow the good side right to the fire, but not into it if I can help it.
  -- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne...
• He that I am reading seems always to have the most force.
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book ii, Chap. xii, Apology for Raimond Sebond...
• The thing in the world I am most of afraid of is fear, and with good reason, that passion alone in the trouble of it exceeding other accidents.
  -- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-1592)...
• I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that ties them together.
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book iii, Chap. xii...
• Why may not a goose say thus: "All the parts of the universe I have an interest i
  he earth serves me to walk upon, the sun to light me...
• Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book i, Chap. xxxi, Of Divine Ordinance...
• What I gave, I have; what I spent, I had; what I kept, I lost. -- old epitaph