Learning is a good medicine: but no medicine is powerful enough to preserve itself from taint and corruption independently of defects in the jar that it is kept in. One man sees clearly but does not see straight: consequently he sees what is good but fails to follow it; he sees knowledge and does not use it.
Michel de MontaigneIn the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection; otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.
Michel de MontaigneThe worst condition of humans is when they lose knowledge and control of themselves.
Michel de MontaigneThere are few things on which we can pass a sincere judgement, because there are few things in which we have not, in one way or another, a particular interest.
Michel de Montaigne