From Obedience and submission comes all our virtues, and all sin is comes from self-opinion.
Michel de MontaigneThe first lessons with which we should irrigate his mind should be those which teach him to know himself, and to know how to die ... and to live.
Michel de MontaigneKnowledge is an excellent drug; but no drug has virtue enough to preserve itself from corruption and decay, if the vessel be tainted and impure wherein it is put to keep.
Michel de MontaigneWe cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.
Michel de Montaigne