Ocupation: Writer
Life: February 28, 1533 - September 13, 1592
Birthday: February 28
Death: September 13
Knowledge is an excellent drug; but no drug has virtue enough to preserve itself from corruption and decay, if the vessel be tainted and impure wherein it is put to keep.
source: Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.339, Delphi Classics
topic: Knowledge, Drug, Decay, Tainted