Montaigne

Famous quotes containing the word montaigne:

    Those who make a practice of comparing human actions are never so perplexed as when they try to see them as a whole and in the same light; for they commonly contradict each other so strangely that it seems impossible that they have come from the same shop.
    —Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)

    As for me, then, I love life and cultivate it just as God has been pleased to grant it to us.
    —Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)

    Tortures are a dangerous invention, and seem to be a test of endurance rather than of truth.
    —Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)