Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

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.

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.

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.

All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly.

All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly.

Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.

Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.