The concern that some women show at the absence of their husbands, does not arise from their not seeing them and being with them, but from their apprehension that their husbands are enjoying pleasures in which they do not participate, and which, from their being at a distance, they have not the power of interrupting.
Michel de MontaigneI set forth notions that are human and my own, simply as human notions considered in themselves, not as determined and decreed by heavenly ordinance.
Michel de MontaigneWe should be similarly wary of accepting common opinions; we should judge them by the ways of reason not by popular vote.
Michel de Montaigne