Shame on all eloquence which leaves us with a taste for itself and not for its substance.
Michel de MontaigneThe general order of things that takes care of fleas and moles also takes care of men, if they will have the same patience that fleas and moles have, to leave it to itself.
Michel de MontaigneMarriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape.
Michel de Montaigne