Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape.
Michel de MontaigneThere is the name and the thing; the name is a sound which sets a mark on and denotes the thing. The name is no part of the thing nor of the substance; it is an extraneous piece added to the thing, and outside of it.
Michel de MontaigneTruly man is a marvelously vain, diverse, and undulating object. It is hard to found any constant and uniform judgment on him.
Michel de Montaigne