Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise wit…

Michel de Montaigne
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Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own. ✨ Michel de Montaigne (1991). The essays of Michel de Montaigne, Lane, Allen
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Princes give mee sufficiently, if they take nothing from me, and doe me much good, if they doe me no hurt: it is all I require of them. ✨ Montaigne's Essays.
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If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
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Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own. ✨ Michel de Montaigne (1991). The essays of Michel de Montaigne, Lane, Allen

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