Michel de Montaigne on ceaseless
Michel de Montaigne109 quotes“The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.”
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Michel de MontaigneMichel de Montaigne If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
Michel de MontaigneMichel de Montaigne She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
Michel de MontaigneMichel de Montaigne The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
Michel de MontaigneMichel de Montaigne The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
Michel de MontaigneMichel de Montaigne I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.
Michel de MontaigneMichel de Montaigne Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
Michel de MontaigneMichel de Montaigne Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
Michel de MontaigneMichel de Montaigne If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
Michel de MontaigneMichel de Montaigne The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
Michel de MontaigneMichel de Montaigne Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
Michel de MontaigneMichel de Montaigne Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.
Michel de MontaigneMichel de Montaigne I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
Michel de MontaigneMichel de Montaigne Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
Michel de MontaigneMichel de Montaigne Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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James MadisonJames Madison One man watches a river flow by. If he does not wish it to flow, to change ceaselessly in accord with its nature, he will suffer great pain.
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