The middle sort of historians (of which the most part are) spoil all; they will chew our meat for us.
Michel de MontaigneIn general I ask for books that make use of learning, not those that build it up.
Michel de MontaigneCovetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
Michel de Montaigne