Michel De Montaigne, The Complete Essays

Quotes

• “It is a disaster that wisdom forbids you to be satisfied with yourself and always sends you away dissatisfied and fearfu...”
• “There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, a...”
• “[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.”
• “If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.”
• “Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.”
• “Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.”
• “Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness.”
• “We must not attach knowledge to the mind, we have to incorporate it there.”
• “Judgement can do without knowledge: but not knowledge without judgement.”
• “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.”
• “Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.”
• “Why do people respect the package rather than the man?”