“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.”

“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.”