Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be. - Michel de Montaigne

Les montagnes bougent, c'est juste qu'elles bougent lentement.

In truth, knowledge is a great and very useful quality; those who despise it give evidence enough of their stupidity. Yet I do not set its value at that extreme measure that some attribute to it, such as the philosopher Herillus, who find in it the sovereign good and think it has the power to make us wise and happy.

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.