Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThere is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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My trade and art is to live.
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
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There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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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 do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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