Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIt is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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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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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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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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Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
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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 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 straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.
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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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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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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 is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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