Michel de Montaigne Quote

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""Nous ne travaillons qu'à remplir la mémoire et laissons la conscience et l'entendement non meublés et vides.""

Translations

“I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reaso...”

Michel de Montaigne

“The profit we possess after study is to have become better and wiser.”

“To know how to live is my trade and my art”

“My trade and my art is to live.”

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