If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves. - Michel de Montaigne

Atheism being a proposition as unnatural as monstrous, difficult also and hard to establish in the human understanding, how arrogant soever, there are men enough seen, out of vanity and pride, to be the authors of extraordinary and reforming opinions, and outwardly to affect the profession of them; who, if they are such fools, have, nevertheless, not the power to plant them in their own conscience.

We need but little learning to live happily.

The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.