Montaigne

Famous quotes containing the word montaigne:

“This book was written in good faith, reader. It warns you from the outset that in it I have set myself no goal but a domestic and private one.... I am myself the matter of my book.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)

“Laws remain in credit not because they are just, but because they are laws. That is the mystic foundation of their authority; they have no other.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)

“I will follow the good side as far as the fire, but exclusively, if I can.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)