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 MONTAIGNEVirtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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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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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man’s estate.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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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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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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