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."

"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."

"It is a disaster that wisdom forbids you to be satisfied with yourself and always sends you away dissatisfied and fearful, whereas stubbornness and foolhardiness fill their hosts with joy and assurance."

"If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I."

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