I love a friendship that flatters itself in the sharpness and vigor of its communications. — Michel de Montaigne
The sage says that all that is under heaven incurs the same law and the same fate. — Michel de Montaigne
This very Rome that we behold deserves our love …: the only common and universal city. — Michel de Montaigne
We easily enough confess in others an advantage of courage, strength, experience, — Michel de Montaigne
In general I ask for books that make use of learning, not those that build it up. — Michel de Montaigne
The archer who overshoots his mark does no better than he who falls short of it. — Michel de Montaigne
Whom conscience, ne’er asleep, Wounds with incessant strokes, not loud, but deep. — Michel de Montaigne
Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end. — Michel de Montaigne