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“I speak the truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little more as I grow older.”
― Montaigne

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“There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.”
― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

tags: learning, lifelong-learning, philosophy, socrates

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“And therefore, Reader, I myself am the subject of my book: it is not reasonable that you should employ your leisure on a topic so frivolous and so vain.

Therefore, Farewell:”
― Michel de Montaigne, The Essays: A Selection

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“Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head”
― Michel de Montaigne

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“I find I am much prouder of the victory I obtain over myself, when, in the very ardor of dispute, I make myself submit to my adversary’s force of reason, than I am pleased with the victory I obtain over him through his weakness.”
― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays