Now, since everything else is furnished with the exact amount of needle and thread required to maintain its being, it is in truth incredible that we alone should be brought into the world in a defective and indigent state, in a state such that we cannot maintain ourselves without external aid.
Michel de MontaigneIf ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
Michel de MontaigneIf others surpass you in knowledge, in charm, in strength, in fortune, you have other causes to blame for it; but if you yield tothem in stoutness of heart you have only yourself to blame.
Michel de MontaigneThere is nothing on which men are commonly more intent than on making a way for their opinions.
Michel de Montaigne