Decency, not to dare to do that in public which it is decent enough to do in private. — Michel de Montaigne
If I can, I shall keep my death from saying anything that my life has not already said. — Michel de Montaigne
Now, since our condition accommodates things to itself, and transforms them according — Michel de Montaigne
What enriches language is its being handled and exploited by beautiful minds-not — Michel de Montaigne
The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from Custom. — Michel de Montaigne
Disappointment and feebleness imprint upon us a cowardly and valetudinarian virtue. — Michel de Montaigne
Everyone gives the title of barbarism to everything that is not in use in his own country. — Michel de Montaigne