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"Our ordinary practice is to follow the inclinations of our appetite, to the left, to the right, uphill and down, as the wind of circumstance carries us. We think of what we want only at the moment we want it, and we change like that animal which takes the color of the place you set it on. What we have just now planned, we presently change, and presently again we retrace our steps: nothing but oscillation and inconsistency. […] We do not go; we are carried away, like floating objects, now gently, now violently, according as the water is angry or calm."

- Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays of Montaigne (translated by Donald M. Frame)