Wine is the benevolent god, who gives back gaiety to men and restores youth to the old.
Michel de MontaigneLaws are often made by fools, and even more often by men who fail in equity because they hate equality: but always by men, vain authorities who can resolve nothing.
Michel de MontaigneThose who make a practice of comparing human actions are never so perplexed as when they try to see them as a whole and in the same light; for they commonly contradict each other so strangely that it seems impossible that they have come from the same shop.
Michel de Montaigne