We easily enough confess in others an advantage of courage, strength, experience, activity, and beauty; but an advantage in judgment we yield to none.
Michel de MontaigneWonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end.
Michel de MontaigneBeauty is the true prerogative of women, and so peculiarly their own, that our sex, though naturally requiring another sort of feature, is never in its lustre but when puerile and beardless, confused and mixed with theirs.
Michel de MontaigneIt is an absolute perfection... to get the very most out of one's individuality.
Michel de Montaigne