In nine lifetimes, you'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you. - Michel de Montaigne

So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination... And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do not bring forth in the agitation.

Quelle vérité que ces montagnes bornent, qui est mensonge qui se tient au delà?

Man in sooth is a marvellous, vain, fickle, and unstable subject.