It takes so much to be a king that he exists only as such. That extraneous glare that surrounds him hides him and conceals him from us; our sight breaks and is dissipated by it being filled and arrested by this strong light.
Michel de MontaigneIn plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.
Michel de MontaigneMen throw themselves on foreign assistances to spare their own, which, after all, are the only certain and sufficient ones.
Michel de Montaigne