honest amusement..........................

     I should certainly like to have a more perfect knowledge of things, but I do not want to buy it as dear as it costs.  My intention is to pass pleasantly, and not laboriously, what life I have left.  There is nothing for which I want to rack my brain, not even knowledge, however great its value.

     I seek in books only to give myself pleasure by honest amusement; or if I study, I seek only the learning that treats of the knowledge of myself and instructs me in how to die well and live well.

-Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Works, Book Two, Chapter 10