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For table-talk, I prefer the pleasant and witty before the learned and the grave; in bed, beauty before goodness.

Michel de Montaigne
Witty, Bed, Tables
Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.397, Delphi Classics
For table-talk, I prefer the pleasant and witty before the learned and the grave; in bed, beauty before goodness.