I am disgusted with innovation, in whatever guise, and with reason, for I have seen very harmful effects of it.
Michel de MontaigneIntoxication is calculated to put heart into the elderly and give them delight in dancing.
Michel de MontaigneOther passions have objects to flatter them, and seem to content and satisfy them for a while; there is power in ambition, pleasure in luxury, and pelf in covetousness; but envy can gain nothing but vexation.
Michel de MontaigneOne may disavow and disclaim vices that surprise us and whereto our passions transport us. But those which by long habit are rooted in a strong and anchored in a powerful will are not subject to contradiction. Repentance is but a denying of our will, and an opposition of our fantasies, which diverts us here and there.
Michel de Montaigne