I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of. ✨ M…

Michel de Montaigne
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of. ✨ Michel de Montaigne (1946). The essays
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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity. ✨ Attributed to Essais by Michel de Montaigne, 1595.
True it is that she who escapeth safe and unpolluted from out the school of freedom, giveth more confidence of herself than she who comet sound out of the school of severity and restraint.
In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum. ✨ Michel de Mon … ▶
Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness. ✨ Essays by Michel de Montaigne, Book I, Ch. 25, 1595.
One should always have one's boots on and be ready to leave. ✨ 'Essais' (1580) bk. 1, ch. 20.

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