My trade and art is to live.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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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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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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The thing I fear most is fear.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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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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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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