He praises a relaxed will, an easygoing enjoyment of living and its contingencies, and he dislikes erudition if it is painfully acquired. 'We would be much better off if we dropped our inquiries and let ourselves be moulded by the natural order of the world.' 'The natural order of the world' gives us the essence of Montaigne. Ecstasies and visions that may involve escaping from our corporeal selves are dangerous and not to be trusted. We cannot bootstrap ourselves into some elevated state which is not our natural setting. Each one of us has his own idiosyncracies, both of body and of mind, his own forma mentis, and the idiosyncracies are the result of countless causes and influences which will never be traced. Therefore it is foolish to publish rules and disciplines for all humanity as the Stoics did, since humanity consists of endlessly varying and diverse individuals, whose needs must be endlessly varying also.