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Collected Maxims and Other Reflections: With Parallel French Text (Oxford World's Classics)
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Be no wiser than is necessary, but be wise in moderation. Letter of Paul to the Romans, 12
lindaraquelita • A Catalog of Montaigne's Beam Inscriptions
If any man thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself. Letter of Paul to the Galatians, 6[.3].
lindaraquelita • A Catalog of Montaigne's Beam Inscriptions
― Fyodor Dostoevsky
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I imagine many people could have achieved wisdom if they had not imagined they had already achieved it, if they had not dissembled about some of their own characteristics and turned a blind eye to others.
Seneca • On the Shortness of Life (Penguin Great Ideas)
Beaucoup, je crois, seraient arrivés à la sagesse, s'ils n'eussent imaginé l'avoir atteinte, s'ils ne se fussent dissimulé en partie leurs imperfections ou n'eussent passé sur celles qui frappaient le plus leurs yeux. Car ne crois pas que les flatteries d'autrui nous soient plus mortelles que les nôtres. Qui ose se dire la vérité ? Qui,