Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
Michel de MontaigneThere is not one of us that would not be worse than kings, if so continually corrupted as they are with a sort of vermin called flatterers.
Michel de MontaigneI consider it equal injustice to set our heart against natural pleasures and to set our heart too much on them. We should neither pursue them, nor flee them; we should accept them.
Michel de MontaigneThat is why Bias jested with those who were going through the perils of a great storm with him and calling on the gods for help: "Shut up," he said, "so that they do not realize that you are here with me.
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