Memory is a wonderfully useful tool, and without it judgement does its work with difficulty; it is entirely lacking in me.... Now,the more I distrust my memory, the more confused it becomes. It serves me better by chance encounter; I have to solicit it nonchalantly. For if I press it, it is stunned; and once it has begun to totter, the more I probe it, the more it gets mixed up and embarrassed. It serves me at its own time, not at mine.
Michel de MontaigneAnd therefore, Reader, I myself am the subject of my book: it is not reasonable that you should employ your leisure on a topic so frivolous and so vain. Therefore, Farewell.
Michel de MontaigneAs for me, then, I love life and cultivate it just as God has been pleased to grant it to us.
Michel de MontaigneNo spiritual mind remains within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its own strength.
Michel de Montaigne