It is equally pointless to weep because we won't be alive a hundred years from now as that we were not here a hundred years ago.
Michel de MontaigneI have gathered a posy of other menยs flowers and only the thread that bonds them is my own.
Michel de MontaigneCourtesy, like grace and beauty, that which begets liking and inclination to love one another at the first sight, and in the very beginning of our acquaintance and familiarity; and, consequently, that which first opens the door for us to better ourselves by the example of others, if there be anything in the society worth notice
Michel de Montaigne