[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair... - Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

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

"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."

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

"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."