My trade and art is to live.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNELend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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In nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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For truly it is to be noted, that children’s plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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The confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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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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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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