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A man must be a little mad if he does not want to be even more stupid.

Michel de Montaigne

Malice sucks up the greatest part of its own venom, and poisons itself.

Michel de Montaigne

Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.

Michel de Montaigne

I find that the best goodness I have has some tincture of vice.

Michel de Montaigne

We are brought to a belief of God either by reason or by force. Atheism being a proposition as unnatural as monstrous, difficult also and hard to establish in the human understanding, how arrogant soever, there are men enough seen, out of vanity and pride, to be the authors of extraordinary and reforming opinions, and outwardly to affect the profession of them; who, if they are such fools, have, nevertheless, not the power to plant them in their own conscience. Yet will they not fail to lift up their hands towards heaven if you give them a good thrust with a sword in the breast, and when fear or sickness has abated and dulled the licentious fury of this giddy humour they will easily re-unite, and very discreetly suffer themselves to be reconciled to the public faith and examples.

Michel de Montaigne

Of all human and ancient opinions concerning religion, that seems to me the most likely and most excusable, that acknowledged God as an incomprehensible power, the original and preserver of all things, all goodness, all perfection, receiving and taking in good part the honour and reverence that man paid him, under what method, name, or ceremonies soever

Michel de Montaigne

Truly man is a marvellously vain, diverse, and undulating object. It is hard to found any constant and uniform judgement on him.

Michel de Montaigne

I want to be seen here in my simple, natural, ordinary fashion, without straining or artifice; for it is myself that I portray…I am myself the matter of my book.

Michel de Montaigne

I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.

Michel de Montaigne

Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.

Michel de Montaigne