We perceive no charms that are not sharpened, puffed out, and inflated by artifice. Those which glide along naturally and simply easily escape a sight so gross as ours.
Michel de MontaigneLet us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
Michel de MontaigneOh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm or a flea and yet will create Gods by the dozen!
Michel de MontaigneWe find ourselves more taken with the running up and down, the games, and puerile simplicities of our children, than we do, afterward, with their most complete actions; as if we had loved them for our sport, like monkeys, and not as men.
Michel de Montaigne