Michel de Montaigne

(28 February 1533 - 13 September 1592)

…the most ignorant and incompetent men whom you put in command of your wars never fail to become suddenly most worthy of command, because it is you who employ them!1

Michel de Montaigne [Essays III, 8. On the art of conversation]

  1. Erasmus, Apophthegmata, VII, Antisthenes, XXX. ↩