If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more th... - Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

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

"Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness."

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

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

"There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent."