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The plague of man is the opinion of knowledge. That is why ignorance is so recommended by our religion as a quality suitable to belief and obedience.

The plague of man is the opinion of knowledge. That is why ignorance is so recommended by our religion as a quality suitable to belief and obedience.

Michel de Montaigne
Ignorance, Men, Quality
Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.360, Stanford University Press

Silence and modesty are very valuable qualities in conversation.

Michel de Montaigne
Silence, Quality, Modesty

Obstinacy and contention are common qualities, most appearing in, and best becoming, a mean and illiterate soul.

Michel de Montaigne
Mean, Soul, Quality
Michel de Montaigne, George Savile Marquis of Halifax (1743). “Montaigne's Essays in Three Books: With Notes and Quotations. And an Account of the Author's Life. With a Short Character of the Author and Translator”, p.168

In truth, knowledge is a great and very useful quality; those who despise it give evidence enough of their stupidity. Yet I do not set its value at that extreme measure that some attribute to it.

Michel de Montaigne
Giving, Stupidity, Quality
Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.319, Stanford University Press

The most universal quality is diversity.

Michel de Montaigne
Diversity, Quality, Universal
Michel de Montaigne (1872). “All the Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne”, p.656

I find no quality so easy for a man to counterfeit as devotion, though his life and manner are not conformable to it; the essence of it is abstruse and occult, but the appearances easy and showy.

Michel de Montaigne
Men, Essence, Quality
Michel de Montaigne (1849). “Works: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy; with Notes, Notices, Etc”, p.401

Socrates, who was a perfect model in all great qualities, ... hit on a body and face so ugly and so incongruous with the beauty of his soul, he who was so madly in love with beauty.

Michel de Montaigne
Perfect, Soul, Quality

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