Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEAge imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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My trade and art is to live.
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She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.
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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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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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The prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk – they are all part of the curriculum.
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