"I want death to find me planting my cabbages, neither worrying about it nor the unfinished garden."

-- Montaigne

"Men are tormented by the opinions they have of things, not by the things themselves."

-- Montaigne

"The greatest thing in the world is to know how to be one's own self."

-- Montaigne

"The plainest sign of wisdom is continual cheerfulness."

-- Montaigne

"He who fears, he shall suffer already what he fears."

-- Montaigne