A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe 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.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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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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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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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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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind – and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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