Excellent memories are often coupled with feeble judgments. - Michel de Montaigne

Not because Socrates said so, but because it is in truth my own disposition — and perchance to some excess — I look upon all men as my compatriots, and embrace a Pole as a Frenchman, making less account of the national than of the universal and common bond.

I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.

He who establishes his argument by noise and command, shows that his reason is weak.