Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have kn... - Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

"We must not attach knowledge to the mind, we have to incorporate it there."

"If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I."

"It is a disaster that wisdom forbids you to be satisfied with yourself and always sends you away dissatisfied and fearful, whereas stubbornness and foolhardiness fill their hosts with joy and assurance."

"Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know."

"[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out."