Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only b... - Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

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

"Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens."

"Judgement can do without knowledge: but not knowledge without judgement."

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

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