I know nothing about education except this: that the greatest and the most important difficulty known to human learning seems to lie in that area whi… - Michel de Montaigne

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.

Would I fortify myself against the fear of death, it must be at the expense of Seneca: would I extract consolation for myself or my friend, I must borrow it from Cicero. I might have found it in myself, had I been trained to make use of my own reason. I do not like this relative and mendicant understanding; for though we could become learned by other men's learning, a man can never be wise but by his own wisdom.

Nagy tisztelettel adózom vágyaimnak és hajlamaimnak. Nem szeretem bajjal gyógyítani a bajt; gyűlölöm az olyan orvosságokat, amelyek jobban zaklatnak, mint a betegség. Ha rajtam a vesekő átka és még az az átok is, hogy meg kell tartóztatnom magam az osztrigaevéstől, két nyavalyát kaptam egy helyett. A betegség az egyik oldalról csíp belénk, a szabály a másikról.