Perhaps it is not without reason that we attribute facility in belief and conviction to simplicity and ignorance; for it seems to me I once learned that belief was sort of an impression made on our mind, and that the softer it is the less resistant t.
Michel de MontaigneI honor most those to whom I show least honor; and where my soul moves with great alacrity, I forget the proper steps of ceremony.
Michel de MontaigneWe are nothing but ceremony; ceremony carries us away, and we leave the substance of things; we hang on to the branches and abandon the trunk and body.
Michel de MontaigneVirtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
Michel de Montaigne