Glory and repose are things that cannot possibly inhabit in one and the same place.
Michel de MontaigneThere is nothing on which men are commonly more intent than on making a way for their opinions.
Michel de MontaignePeoples nurtured on freedom and self-government judge any other form of polity to be deformed and unnatural. Those who are used to monarchy do the same .
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