Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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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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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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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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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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The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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