Montaigne

Famous quotes containing the word montaigne:

“If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)

“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)

“What am I to choose? “Choose what you please, as long as you choose.” There you have a foolish answer, which seems to be the outcome, however, of all Dogmatism, which will not allow us to be ignorant of that which we are ignorant.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)