Human understanding is marvellously enlightened by daily conversation with men, for we are, otherwise, compressed and heaped up in ourselves, and have our sight limited to the length of our own noses.
Michel de MontaigneI love a friendship that flatters itself in the sharpness and vigor of its communications.
Michel de MontaigneThere is power in ambition, pleasure in luxury...but envy can gain nothing but vexation.
Michel de MontaigneOne man may have some special knowledge at first-hand about the character of a river or a spring, who otherwise knows only what everyone else knows. Yet to give currency to this shred of information, he will undertake to write on the whole science of physics. From this fault many great troubles spring.
Michel de Montaigne