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

"Why do people respect the package rather than the man?"

"The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself."

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

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

"Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own."