Greatness of soul consists not so much in soaring high and in pressing forward, as in knowing how to adapt and limit oneself.
Michel de MontaigneThere is a huge gulf between the man who follows the conventions and laws of his country and the man who sets out to regiment them and to change them.
Michel de MontaigneThe shortest way to arrive at glory would be to do that for conscience which we do for glory.
Michel de Montaigne