Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
| NUMBER: | 1782 |
| AUTHOR: | Michel de Montaigne (1533–92) |
| QUOTATION: | Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | The translation of “Et au plus eslevé throne du monde, si ne sommes assis que sus nôstre cul varies in other editions. |
| SUBJECTS: | Success |