Alan

“On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.”
― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

“I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.”
― Michel de Montaigne

“So the worthless rose up against the honoured, those of no reputation against such as were renowned, the foolish against the wise, the young against those advanced in years.”
― The Church Fathers, The Complete Ante-Nicene & Nicene and Post-Nicene Church Fathers Collection

“New Beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.”
― Lao Tzu