The first lessons with which we should irrigate his mind should be tho…

Michel de Montaigne
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The first lessons with which we should irrigate his mind should be those which teach him to know himself, and to know how to die ... and to live. ✨ Michel de Montaigne (1991). The essays of Michel de Montaigne, Lane, Allen
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