If people must be talking about me, I would have it to be truthfully and justly. I would willingly return from the next world to contradict any person who described me other than I was, although he did it to honour me.
Michel de MontaigneNo man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged.
Michel de MontaigneMan is the sole animal whose nudities offend his own companions, and the only one who, in his natural actions, withdraws and hides himself from his own kind.
Michel de Montaigne