Example is a bright looking-glass, universal and for all shapes to loo…

Michel de Montaigne
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Example is a bright looking-glass, universal and for all shapes to look into.
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It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one. ✨ Michel de Montaigne, Charles Cotton (1711). Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne: In Three Books with Marginal Notes and … ▶
Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.
We are more unhappy to see people ahead of us than happy to see people behind us. ✨ Michel de Montaigne (1976). The Complete Essays of Montaigne
Greatness of soul consists not so much in soaring high and in pressing forward, as in knowing how to adapt and limit oneself.
Since I would rather make of him an able man than a learned man, I would also urge that care be taken to choose a guide with a well-made rather than a well-filled head. ✨ Michel de Montaigne (1958). … ▶

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