More from Michel de Montaigne

  1. I speak the truth, not my fill of it, but as much as I dare speak; and I dare to do so a little more as I grow old.
  2. Chaque homme porte la forme, entiere de l'humaine condition.
  3. I will follow the good side right to the fire, but not into it if I can help it.
  4. It (marriage) happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.
  5. There were never in the world two opinions alike, any more than two hairs or two grains. Their most universal quality is diversity.
  6. Not because Socrates said so, but because it is in truth my own disposition - and perchance to some excess - I look upon all men as my comp…
  7. Saying is one thing and doing is another.
  8. There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thoughts under the scrutiny of the laws, he would not deserve hanging ten tim…

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