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

"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."

"Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness."

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

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

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