About Michel de Montaigne:
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne is noted for its merging of casual anecdotes and autobiography with serious intellectual insight; his massive volume Essais (translated literally as "Attempts" or "Trials") contains some of the most influential essays ever written. Montaigne had a direct influence on writers all over the world, including Francis Bacon, René Descartes, Blaise Pascal, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Albert Hirschman, William Hazlitt, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Friedrich Nietzsche, Stefan Zweig, Eric Hoffer, Isaac Asimov, and possibly on the later works of William Shakespeare.
The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
Michel de MontaigneIn nine lifetimes, you'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
Michel de MontaigneI study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
Michel de MontaigneHe who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
Michel de Montaigne