concimitas

Updated: May 20, 2025

But returning to the speaking virtue: I find no great choice betwixt not knowing to speak anything but ill, and not knowing to speak anything but well. "Non est ornamentum virile concimitas." The sages tell us that, as to what concerns knowledge, 'tis nothing but philosophy; and as to what concerns effects, nothing but virtue, which is generally proper to all degrees and to all orders.

Michel de Montaigne - The Essays of Montaigne — Volume 07