Learning is a good medicine: but no medicine is powerful enough to pre…

Michel de Montaigne
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Learning is a good medicine: but no medicine is powerful enough to preserve itself from taint and corruption independently of defects in the jar that it is kept in. One man sees clearly but does not see straight: consequently he sees what is good but fails to follow it; he sees knowledge and does not use it. ✨ Michel de Montaigne (1991). The essays of Michel de Montaigne, Lane, Allen
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Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself. ✨ Michel de Montaigne (1872). All the Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne, p.801
Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages. ✨ Attributed to Essais by Michel de Montaigne, 1595.
When I dance, I dance; when I sleep, I sleep; yes, and when I walk alone in a beautiful orchard, if my thoughts drift to far-off matters for some part of the time for some other part I lead them back … ▶
Nor is it enough to toughen up his soul; you must also toughen up his muscles. ✨ Michel de Montaigne (1991). The essays of Michel de Montaigne, Lane, Allen

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