We must not attach knowledge to the mind, we have to incorpo... - Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

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

"Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know."

"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."

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

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