“I find I am much prouder of the victory I obtain over myself, when, in the very ardor of dispute, I make myself submit to my adversary’s force of reason, than I am pleased with the victory I obtain over him through his weakness.”
Michel de Montaigne“Heureuse la mort qui oste le loisir aux apprests de tel equipage.”
Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays“Je hay entre autres vices, cruellement la cruauté, et par nature et par jugement, comme l'extreme de tous les vices.”
Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays“Il n'est si homme de bien, qu'il mette à l'examen des loix toutes ses actions et pensées, qui ne soit pendable dix fois en sa vie.(There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thoughts under the scrutiny of the laws, he would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.)”
Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays“The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar.”
Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays“The finest thing in the world is knowing how to belong to oneself.Michel de Montaigne”
Laurie Stevens, The Dark Before Dawn“Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.”
Michel de Montaigne“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. ”
Michel de Montaigne“The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.”
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 satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.”
Michel de Montaigne“My trade and art is to live.”
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