"Perhaps we should remember the degree to which accusations of abnormality are regionally and historically founded. To loosen their hold on us, we need only expose ourselves to the diversity of customs across time and space. What is considered abnormal in one group at one moment may not, and will not always be deemed so. We may cross borders in our minds"
"Homo sum, humani a me nihil alienum puto.
I am a man, nothing human is foreign to me.
By travelling accross frontiers, on horseback and in the imagination, Montaigne invited us to exchange local prejudices and the self-division they induced for less constraining identities of the world."
The consolations of philosophy by Alain de Botton