The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of gramm…

Michel de Montaigne
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The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar.
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Wisdom has its excesses, and has no less need of moderation than folly. ✨ Michel de Montaigne (2015). Essays:, p.3, Sheba Blake Publishing
It is a disaster that wisdom forbids you to be satisfied with yourself and always sends you away dissatisfied and fearful, whereas stubbornness and foolhardiness fill their hosts with joy and assuran … ▶
I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it. ✨ Michel de Montaigne (1958). Complete E … ▶
Such as are in immediate fear of a losing their estates, of banishment, or of slavery, live in perpetual anguish, and lose all appetite and repose; whereas such as are actually poor, slaves, or exile … ▶
The most ordinary things, the most common and familiar, if we could see them in their true light, would turn out to be the grandest miracles.

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