Men throw themselves on foreign assistances to spare their own, which, after all, are the only certain and sufficient ones.
Michel de MontaigneThe first law that ever God gave to man was a law of pure obedience; it was a commandment naked and simple, wherein man had nothing to inquire after, or to dispute, forasmuch as to obey is the proper office of a rational soul, acknowledging a heavenly superior and benefactor. From obedience and submission spring all other virtues, as all sin does from self-opinion.
Michel de Montaigne