Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know. - Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

"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."

"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."

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