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A man must always study, but he must not always go to school: what a contemptible thing is an old abecedarian!

A man must always study, but he must not always go to school: what a contemptible thing is an old abecedarian!

Michel de Montaigne
School, Men, Study
Michel de Montaigne, William Hazlitt (1860). “The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy”, p.352

In order always to learn something from others (which is the finest school there can be), I observe in my travels this practice: I always steer those with whom I talk back to the things they know best.

Michel de Montaigne
Travel, School, Order

Custom is a violent and treacherous school mistress. She, by little and lithe, slyly and unperceived, slips in the foot of her authority; but having by this gentle and humble beginning, with the benefit of time, fixed and established it, she then unmasks a furious and tyrannic countenance, against which we have no more the courage or the power so much as to lift up our eyes.

Michel de Montaigne
Humble, School, Eye

The world is but a school of inquisition; it is not who shall enter the ring, but who shall run the best courses.

Michel de Montaigne
Running, School, World
Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.952, 谷月社

I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.

Michel de Montaigne
School, Debate, Notion
Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.229, Stanford University Press

Necessity is a violent school-mistress.

Michel de Montaigne
School, Mistress, Violent
Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.206, Stanford University Press

True it is that she who escapeth safe and unpolluted from out the school of freedom, giveth more confidence of herself than she who comet sound out of the school of severity and restraint.

Michel de Montaigne
Freedom, School, Self Confidence

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