Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
Michel de Montaigne

Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
Michel de Montaigne

Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
Michel de Montaigne

We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
Michel de Montaigne

We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
Michel de Montaigne

We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
Michel de Montaigne

When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
Michel de Montaigne

Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
Michel de Montaigne