We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEI know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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If you don’t know how to die, don’t worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately.
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The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.
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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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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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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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One may be humble out of pride.
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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.
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My trade and art is to live.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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