As for me, then, I love life and cultivate it just as God has been pleased to grant it to us.
Michel de MontaigneWe must reserve a back shop all our own entirely free, in which to establish our real liberty and our principal retreat and solitude.
Michel de MontaigneA person is bound to lose when he talks about himself; if he belittles himself, he is believed; if he praises himself, he isn't believed.
Michel de Montaigne