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 MONTAIGNELet us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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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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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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