Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only b... - 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."

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

"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."

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