Intemperance is the plaque of sensuality, and temperance is not its bane but its seasoning.
Michel de MontaigneThe secret counsels of princes are a troublesome burden to such as have only to execute them.
Michel de MontaigneWe hold death, poverty, and grief for our principal enemies; but this death, which some repute the most dreadful of all dreadful things, who does not know that others call it the only secure harbor from the storm and tempests of life, the sovereign good of nature, the sole support of liberty, and the common and sudden remedy of all evils?
Michel de Montaigne