The utility of living consists not in the length of days, but in the use of time; a man may have lived long, and yet lived but a little.
Michel de MontaigneAn ancient father says that a dog we know is better company than a man whose language we do not understand.
Michel de MontaigneNot because Socrates said so, but because it is in truth my own disposition — and perchance to some excess — I look upon all men as my compatriots, and embrace a Pole as a Frenchman, making less account of the national than of the universal and common bond.
Michel de Montaigne