Live as long as you please, you will strike nothing off the time you will have to spend dead.
Michel de MontaigneMeditation is a powerful and full study as can effectually taste and employ themselves.
Michel de MontaigneSince I would rather make of him an able man than a learned man, I would also urge that care be taken to choose a guide with a well-made rather than a well-filled head.
Michel de MontaigneI was not long since in a company where I was not who of my fraternity brought news of a kind of pills, by true account, composed of a hundred and odd several ingredients; whereat we laughed very heartily, and made ourselves good sport; for what rock so hard were able to resist the shock or withstand the force of so thick and numerous a battery?
Michel de Montaigne