"So we may call these people barbarians, in respect to the rules of reason, but not in respect to ourselves, who surpass them in every kind of barbarity."
Their warfare is wholly noble and generous, and as excusable and beatiful as this human disease can be; its only basis among them is their rivarly in valor. They are not fighting for the conquest of new lands, for they still enjoy that natural abundance that provides them without toil and trouble with all necessary things in such profusion that they have no wish to enlarge their bondaries. They are still in that happy state of desiring only as much as their natural needs demand; anything beyond that is superfluous to them.
---Of Cannibals, Montaigne
Their warfare is wholly noble and generous, and as excusable and beatiful as this human disease can be; its only basis among them is their rivarly in valor. They are not fighting for the conquest of new lands, for they still enjoy that natural abundance that provides them without toil and trouble with all necessary things in such profusion that they have no wish to enlarge their bondaries. They are still in that happy state of desiring only as much as their natural needs demand; anything beyond that is superfluous to them.
---Of Cannibals, Montaigne
