It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.
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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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Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
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I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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