Obstinacy and dogmatism are the surest signs of stupidity. Is there an…

Michel de Montaigne
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Obstinacy and dogmatism are the surest signs of stupidity. Is there anything more confident, resolute, disdainful, grave and serious than an ass?
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I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future. ✨ Michel de Montaigne (1872). All the Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne, p.678
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Obstinacy and dogmatism are the surest signs of stupidity. Is there anything more confident, resolute, disdainful, grave and serious than an ass?

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