Why do people respect the package rather than the man? - Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

"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."

"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."

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