Michel de Montaigne Quotes:
Ocupation: Writer
Life: February 28, 1533 - September 13, 1592
Birthday: February 28
Death: September 13
Just as in habiliments it is a sign of weakness to wish to make oneself noticeable by some peculiar and unaccustomed fashion, so, in language, the quest for new-fangled phrases and little-known words comes from a puerile and pedantic ambition.
source: Michel de Montaigne (1925). “The essays of Montaigne”
topic: Fashion, Ambition, Wish, Pedantic
