There is a certain amount of purpose, acquiescence, and satisfaction in nursing one's melancholy.
Michel de MontaigneThere are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God.
Michel de MontaigneIf I were a maker of books I should compile a register, with comments, of different deaths. He who should teach people to die, would teach them to live.
Michel de MontaigneWe are neither obstinately nor wilfully to oppose evils, nor truckle under them for want of courage, but that we are naturally to give way to them, according to their condition and our own, we ought to grant free passage to diseases; and I find they stay less with me who let them alone. And I have lost those which are reputed the most tenacious and obstinate of their own defervescence, without any help or art, and contrary to their rules. Let us a little permit nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we.
Michel de Montaigne