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Learning is, indeed, a very great and a very material accomplishment. And those who despise it sufficiently discover their own want of understanding...
Apology For Raimond Sebond.
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I fancy virtue to be something else, and something more noble, than good nature, and the mere propension to goodness, that we are born into the world…
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I make no doubt but that I often happen to speak of things that are much better and more truly handled by those who are masters of the trade...
For every one bustling and running to his arms just when he should go to charge, has his cuirass to buckle on when his companions are already put to…
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The Essays of Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne published his influential essays in 1580 - Translated by Charles Cotton - Edited by William Carew Hazlitt (1877)
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