[*"Ambition is not a vice of little people."*](http://www.quotes.net/quote/43041) [***Michel de Montaigne »***](http://www.quotes.net/authors/Michel%20de%20Montaigne) Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (February 28, 1533 - September 13, 1592) was one of the most influential writers of the French Renaissance