Since I would rather make of him an able man than a learned man, I would also urge that care be taken to choose a guide with a well-made rather than a well-filled head.
Michel de MontaigneI say that male and female are cast in the same mold; except for education and habits, the difference is not great.
Michel de MontaigneOrder a purge for your brain, it will there be much better employed than upon your stomach.
Michel de MontaigneMy trade and my art is living. He who forbids me to speak about it according to my sense, experience, and practice, let him orderthe architect to speak of buildings not according to himself but according to his neighbor; according to another man's knowledge, not according to his own.
Michel de Montaigne