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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
Attribution: Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592), French essayist. “Apology for Raymond Sebond,” The Essays (Les Essais), bk. II, ch. 12, Simon Millanges, Bordeaux, first edition (1580).

Categories: Essayist, Excess, Knowledge, Reason

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