What did Michel de Montaigne mean by: We should rather examine, who is better learned, than who is more learned. - Michel de Montaigne Philosopher · France Copy
+ We must not attach knowledge to the mind, we have to incorporate it there. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Michel de Montaigne, Mind, 0 - Michel de Montaigne Philosopher · France
+ The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness. Feraz Zeid, July 21, 2023December 12, 2023, Michel de Montaigne, Certainty, Cheerful, Happiness, 0 - Michel de Montaigne Philosopher · France
+ Everything must not always be said, for that would be folly. Feraz Zeid, June 7, 2023December 12, 2023, Michel de Montaigne, Folly, 0 - Michel de Montaigne Philosopher · France
+ Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Michel de Montaigne, Mind, Time, Wrinkles, 0 - Michel de Montaigne Philosopher · France
+ A man must not always tell all, for that be folly; but what a man says should be what he thinks. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Michel de Montaigne, Honesty, Truth, 0 - Michel de Montaigne Philosopher · France
+ Nature has, herself, I fear, imprinted in man a kind of instinct to inhumanity. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Michel de Montaigne, Instinct, 0 - Michel de Montaigne Philosopher · France
+ Miracles arise from our ignorance of nature, not from nature itself. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Michel de Montaigne, Agnostic, Ignorance, Miracle, 0 - Michel de Montaigne Philosopher · France
+ Rash and incessant scolding runs into custom and renders itself despised. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Michel de Montaigne, Incessant, Running, 0 - Michel de Montaigne Philosopher · France
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