Is there a polity better ordered, the offices better distributed, and more inviolably observed and maintained, than that of bees?
Michel de MontaigneSuch as are in immediate fear of a losing their estates, of banishment, or of slavery, live in perpetual anguish, and lose all appetite and repose; whereas such as are actually poor, slaves, or exiles, ofttimes live as merrily as other folk.
Michel de MontaigneStupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.
Michel de Montaigne