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• We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
  -- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-1592)...
• Let us a little permit Nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we.
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book iii, Chap. xiii...
• Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know. -- Michel de Montaigne
• Ambition is not a vice of little people. -- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-1592)
• The conviction of wisdom is the plague of man. -- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-1592)
• Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get. Spanish Proverb
• Since we cannot hope for order, let us withdraw with style from the chaos. -- Tom Stoppard
• The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them.
  .. Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will....