Montaigne

Famous quotes containing the word montaigne:

“We took advantage of [the Indians’] ignorance and inexperience to incline them the more easily toward treachery, lewdness, avarice, and every sort of inhumanity and cruelty, after the example and pattern of our ways.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)

“Man is certainly crazy. He could not make a mite, and he makes gods by the dozen.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)

“No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)