Upon the highest throne in the world, we are seated, still, upon our arses. - Michel de Montaigne

Human understanding is marvellously enlightened by daily conversation with men, for we are, otherwise, compressed and heaped up in ourselves, and have our sight limited to the length of our own noses.

There is nothing more unsociable than man, and nothing more sociable: unsociable by his vice, sociable by his nature.

that it was an advantage to him to be interrupted in speaking, and that his adversaries were afraid to nettle him, lest his anger should redouble his eloquence.