“We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wis...” — Michel de Montaigne Quote

We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.

The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.

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.

I, who boast of embracing the pleasures of life so assiduously and so particularly, find in them, when I look at them thus minutely, virtually nothing but wind. But what of it? We are all wind.

What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please.

All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.

I think men are afraid to be with a successful woman, because we are terribly strong, we know what we want and we are not fragile enough.

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.