Peoples nurtured on freedom and self-government judge any other form of polity to be deformed and unnatural. Those who are used to monarchy do the same .
Michel de MontaigneNecessity reconciles and brings men together; and this accidental connection afterward forms itself into laws.
Michel de MontaigneI seek in books only to give myself pleasure by honest amusement; or if I study, I seek only the learning that treats of the knowledge of myself and instructs me in how to die well and live well.
Michel de Montaigne