
Ne plus sapite quam oporteat, sed sapite ad sobrietatem.
Ne soyez pas plus sages qu'il ne faut. (Rom. XII, 3)
For I say...to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly...
Quotations from Montaigne's Essays
selected and translated by Anthony Weir
with glosses and comments.
In other words,
ReplyDeleteDon't be cleverer than you need to be. cf.Ecclesiastes VII, 16
as well as Rom XII.16 :
Be not wise in your own conceits.