The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them… Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEAge imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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One may be humble out of pride.
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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.
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It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.
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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.
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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
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I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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For truly it is to be noted, that children’s plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
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When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
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If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
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The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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