Man is quite insane. He wouldn?t know how to create a maggot, and he creates Gods by the dozen.
Michel de MontaigneAll opinions in the world agree in this, that pleasure is our end, although they differ as to the means of attaining it.
Michel de MontaigneThere is no passion that so much transports men from their right judgments as anger. No one would demur upon punishing a judge with death who should condemn a criminal upon the account of his own choler; why then should fathers and pedants be any more allowed to whip and chastise children in their anger? It is then no longer correction bat revenge. Chastisement is instead of physic to children; and should we suffer a physician who should be animated against and enraged at his patient?
Michel de MontaigneMake your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
Michel de Montaigne