Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul. (Michel de Montaigne)

Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.

Michel de Montaigne

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