1. "Our zeal does wonders when it is seconding our leaning towards hatred, cruelty, ambition, avarice, detraction, rebellion." He wrote, "There is no hostility that exceeds Christian hostility." He commented that it was "putting a very high price on one’s conjectures to have someone roasted alive on their account." (Taken from Sarah Bakewell’s brilliant, "A Life of Montaigne."