Experience teaches that a strong memory is generally joined to a weak judgment.


Michel de Montaigne

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My trade and art is to live.
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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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My art and profession is to live.
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All the world knows me in my book, and may book in me.
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One may be humble out of pride.
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There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God.
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It is much more easy to accuse the one sex than to excuse the other.
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The most unhappy and frail creatures are men and yet they are the proudest.
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The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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Confidence in another person's virtue is no light evidence of your own.
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Habit is second nature.
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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A little of everything and nothing thoroughly, after the French fashion.
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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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The great and glorious masterpiece of man is how to live with purpose.
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Who feareth to suffer suffereth already, because he feareth.
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Even on the highest throne in the world, we are still sitting on our ass.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corru...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
In nine lifetimes, you'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, gr...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never s...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
It is a disaster that wisdom forbids you to be satisfied with yourself and always sends you away dis...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
It should be noted that the games of children are not games, and must be considered as their most s...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more ...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate ...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
Malice sucks up the greater part of her own venom, and poisons herself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE