Michel de Montaigne

I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.

I quote others only in order the better to express myself.

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.

When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar.

If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity.