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Able Quotes by Michel de Montaigne
- 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…
- Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and apply myself to them if they will not apply themselves to me.
- Intelligence is required to be able to know that a man knows not.
- I was not long since in a company where I was not who of my fraternity brought news of a kind of pills, by true…
- A tutor should not be continually thundering instruction into the ears of his pupil, as if he were pouring it through a funnel, but, after…
- Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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