Montaigne

Famous quotes containing the word montaigne:

“I cruelly hate cruelty, both by nature and reason, as the worst of all the vices. But then I am so soft in this that I cannot see a chicken’s neck wrung without distress, and cannot bear to hear the squealing of a hare between the teeth of my hounds.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)

“We take the opinions and the knowledge of others into our keeping, and that is all. We must make them our own.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)

“The greatest thing of the world is for a man to know how to be his own.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)