More quotes by Michel de Montaigne

"I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself."
"I listen with attention to the judgment of all men;but so far as I can remember,I have followed none but my own."
"Though the ancient poet in Plutarch tells us we must not trouble the gods with our affairs because they take no heed of our angers and disputes, we can never enough decry the disorderly sallies of our minds."
"The least strained and most natural ways of the soul are the most beautiful; the best occupations are the least forced."
"Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity."