John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
9270 Mihel Eyquem
| NUMBER: | 9270 |
| AUTHOR: | Michel Eyquem, seigneur de Montaigne (1533–1592) |
| QUOTATION: | Man in sooth is a marvellous, vain, fickle, and unstable subject. 1 |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Book i. Chap. i. That Men by various Ways arrive at the same End. |
| Note 1. See Plutarch, Quotation 76. [back] |