Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNENo wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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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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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 ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
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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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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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