At table, I prefer the witty before the grave: in bed, beauty before goodness.[A la familiarité de la table, i’associe le plaisant, non le prudent: au lict, la beauté auant la bonté.]
Source:The works of Michael de Montaigne (ed. J. W. Moore, 1849), Book I, Chapter XXVII. Of Friendship, Page 109
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