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 MONTAIGNEIt is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil’s alphabet – the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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If you don’t know how to die, don’t worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately.
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One may be humble out of pride.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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We can be knowledgable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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