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 MONTAIGNEIf you don’t know how to die, don’t worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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The confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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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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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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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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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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My trade and art is to live.
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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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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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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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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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