I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEA good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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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.
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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My trade and art is to live.
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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.
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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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I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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In nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
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Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
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