It is a disaster that wisdom forbids you to be satisfied wit... - Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

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

"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."

"I quote others only in order the better to express myself."

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