Men ... are not agreed about any one thing, not even that heaven is over our heads.
Michel de MontaigneI see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.
Michel de MontaigneIs there a polity better ordered, the offices better distributed, and more inviolably observed and maintained, than that of bees?
Michel de MontaigneTo begin depriving death of its greatest advantage over us, let us adopt a way clean contrary to that common one; let us deprive death of its strangeness, let us frequent it, let us get used to it; let us have nothing more often in mind than death... We do not know where death awaits us: so let us wait for it everywhere." "To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.
Michel de Montaigne