I thought I'd share some quotable quips as I encounter them in the Essays of (from the 2003 printing of M.A. Screech's 1987 translation):

Nothing is really in our power but our will.... P. 28

where I seek myself I cannot find myself; I discover myself more by accident, than by inquiring into my judgement. p. 40

a powerful imagination generates the event. p. 109

in the study I am making of our manners and our motives, fabulous testimonies - provided they remain possible - can do service as well as true ones. p. 119

Only fools have made up their minds and are certain. p. 170

I cannot believe...that reason cannot produce the same effects as habit....
Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays, p. 273

"Does knowing mean nothing to you, unless somebody else knows that you know it?"
Persius - cited p. 274