Examples teach us that in military affairs, and all others of a like nature, study is apt to enervate and relax the courage of man, rather than to give strength and energy to the mind.
Michel de MontaigneThe art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure; neither the greatest captains nor the greatest philosophers have disdained the use or science of eating well.
Michel de Montaigne... whoever believes anything esteems that it is a work of charity to persuade another of it.
Michel de Montaigne