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

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

"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."

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

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

"Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own."