Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war read more

The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes.

The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.

The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.

Of all the benefits which virtue confers on us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.

Of all the benefits which virtue confers on us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.

Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.

Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.

Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.

Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.