I enjoy books as misers enjoy treasures, because I know I can enjoy them whenever I please.
Michel de MontaigneI see this evident, that we willingly accord to piety only the services that flatter our passions.
Michel de MontaigneFortune does us neither good nor hurt; she only presents us the matter, and the seed, which our soul, more powerfully than she, turns and applies as she best pleases; being the sole cause and sovereign mistress of her own happy or unhappy condition.
Michel de Montaigne