Intoxication is calculated to put heart into the elderly and give them delight in dancing.
Michel de MontaigneMy opinion is that we must lend ourselves to others and give ourselves only to ourselves. If my will happened to be prone to mortgage and attach itself, I would not last: I am too tender, both by nature and by practice.
Michel de MontaigneThe common notions that we find in credit around us and infused into our souls by our fathers' seed, these seem to be the universal and natural ones. Whence it comes to pass that what is off the hinges of custom, people believe to be off the hinges of reason.
Michel de MontaigneThere is as much difference between us and ourselves as there is between us and others.
Michel de Montaigne